Iob

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰώβ (Iṓb), from Biblical Hebrew אִיּוֹב (ʾiyyōḇ).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Iōb m sg (variously declined, genitive Iōb or Iōbis); indeclinable, third declension

  1. (biblical) Job (Biblical character and book)

Declension

Indeclinable noun or third-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Iōb
Genitive Iōb
Iōbis
Dative Iōb
Iōbī
Accusative Iōb
Iōbem
Ablative Iōb
Iōbe
Vocative Iōb

Descendants

References

  • Iob”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Iob in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Iōb, Ancient Greek Ἰώβ (Iṓb), from Biblical Hebrew אִיּוֹב (ʾiyyōḇ).

Proper noun

Iōb m

  1. Job (biblical character)
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints
      Iōb, sē ēadiġa and sē ānrǣda godes þeġn, wæs swa fulfremed on eallum gōdnyssum þæt god sylf cwæþ bē him þæt his ġelīċa nǣre þā on þām līfe ofer eorþan.
      Job, the prosperous and unwavering servant of god, was in all good deeds that God Himself said that there was no one like him living on Earth.

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Iob m

  1. (biblical) Job
  2. (biblical) Job, the eighteenth book of the Old Testament

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