Job

See also job, and Jòb

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: jōb, IPA: /dʒəʊb/, SAMPA: /dZ@Ub/
• Rhymes: -əʊb

Etymology

Hebrew אִיּוֹב (iyobh, “hated”), from אָיַב (ayyabh, “he was hostile to”).

Proper noun

Job

Job on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “Job” on Wikisource. Wikisource Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

1. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
2. A male given name
3. An Old Testament character.

Derived terms

• Job's comforter
• patience of Job

Related terms

• Job's news

Translations

book of the Bible

Arabic: سفر أيوب (sifr ’ayyūb) Dutch: Job (nl) French: Job (fr) m. German: Hiob (de) Haitian Creole: Jòb Hebrew: אִיּוֹב (iyov)

Japanese: ヨブ記 (yobu ki) Maltese: Ktieb Ġob Polish: Księga Hioba (pl) f. Portuguese: Jó (pt) Russian: Иов (ióv) Slovene: Job (sl)

biblical character

Arabic: أيوب (’ayyūb) Armenian: Հոբ (hy) (Hob) French: Job (fr) m. German: Hiob (de) m. Haitian Creole: Jòb

Hebrew: אִיּוֹב (iyov) Polish: Hiob (pl) m. Portuguese: Jó (pt) Russian: Иов (ióv) Slovene: Job (sl)

See also

• Wikipedia article on Job

Anagrams

• obj

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔp

Proper noun

Job

1. Job (the eighteenth book of the Old Testament)

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German

Etymology

From English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʒɔp/
• Homophone: jobb

Noun

Job m. (genitive Jobs, plural Jobs)

1. a job (work)
2. an assignment

   Ich hab’ ’nen Job für dich: Rasenmähen! - I have a task for you: mowing the lawn!

Declension

declension of Job

	singular			plural
m. gender	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Job	die	Jobs
genitive	eines	des	Jobs	der	Jobs
dative	einem	dem	Job	den	Jobs
accusative	einen	den	Job	die	Jobs

Related terms

• jobben
• Jobbörse
• Jobmühle

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Swedish

Proper noun

Job

1. Job

Related terms

• jobspost