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Latin
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
- (biblical) Job (Biblical character and book)
Declension
Indeclinable noun or third-declension noun, singular only.
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
- 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
Proper noun
Iob m
- (biblical) Job
- (biblical) Job, the eighteenth book of the Old Testament
Coordinate terms
- (Scottish Gaelic books of the Old Testament) Genesis, Ecsodus, Lebhiticus, Àireamh, Deuteronomi, Iosua, Britheamhan, Rut, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Rìghrean, 2 Rìghrean, 1 Eachdraidh, 2 Eachdraidh, Esra, Nehemiah, Ester, Iob, Sailm, Gnàth-fhacail, Eclesiastes, Dàn Sholaimh, Isaiah, Ieremiah, Tuireadh, Eseciel, Daniel, Hosèa, Ioel, Amos, Obadiah, Ionah, Micah, Nahum, Habacuc, Sephaniah, Hagai, Sechariah, Malachi (Category: gd:Books of the Bible)