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Job 24

Job 24:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They are wet
ratab (Hebrew #7372)
to be moist
KJV usage: be wet.
Pronounce: raw-tab'
Origin: a primitive root
with the showers
zerem (Hebrew #2230)
a gush of water
KJV usage: flood, overflowing, shower, storm, tempest.
Pronounce: zeh'-rem
Origin: from 2229
of the mountains
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
, and embrace
chabaq (Hebrew #2263)
to clasp (the hands or in embrace)
KJV usage: embrace, fold.
Pronounce: khaw-bak'
Origin: a primitive root
p the rock
tsuwr (Hebrew #6697)
from 6696; properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
KJV usage: edge, X (mighty) God (one), rock, X sharp, stone, X strength, X strong. See also 1049.
Pronounce: tsoor
Origin: or tsur {tsoor}
for want of a shelter
machaceh (Hebrew #4268)
from 2620; a shelter (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: hope, (place of) refuge, shelter, trust.
Pronounce: makh-as-eh'
Origin: or machceh {makh-seh'}
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Lam. 4:6• 6And the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the reward of the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were violently laid upon her. (Lam. 4:6)

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Mountain Mount,
Rock

Cross References

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wet.
Song of Sol. 5:2• 2I slept, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved! he knocketh: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night. (Song of Sol. 5:2)
embrace.
Lam. 4:5• 5They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills. (Lam. 4:5)
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Heb. 11:38• 38(of whom the world was not worthy,) wandering in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caverns of the earth. (Heb. 11:38)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock …