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Job 26

Job 26:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He stretcheth out
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
w the north
tsaphown (Hebrew #6828)
from 6845; properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown)
KJV usage: north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).
Pronounce: tsaw-fone'
Origin: or tsaphon {tsaw-fone'}
over the empty place
tohuw (Hebrew #8414)
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV usage: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Pronounce: to'-hoo
Origin: from an unused root meaning to lie waste
, and hangeth
talah (Hebrew #8518)
to suspend (especially to gibbet)
KJV usage: hang (up).
Pronounce: taw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
upon nothing
bliymah (Hebrew #1099)
(as indef.) nothing whatever
KJV usage: nothing.
Pronounce: bel-ee-mah'
Origin: from 1097 and 4100
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Psa. 104:2• 2Wearing light as the robe,{HR}Spreading heavens as the curtains; (Psa. 104:2)

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 9:8• 8Spreading out the heavens himself alone,{HR}And treading on the heights of the sea, (Job 9:8)
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Gen. 1:1‑2• 1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
 2And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God [was] brooding upon the face of the waters. (Gen. 1:1‑2)
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Psa. 24:2• 2For he hath founded it upon the seas,{HR}And upon the rivers he establisheth it. (Psa. 24:2)
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Psa. 104:2‑5• 2Wearing light as the robe,{HR}Spreading heavens as the curtains;
 3Who frameth his chambers in the waters,{HR}Who maketh clouds his chariot (vehicle),{HR}Who walketh on wings of wind;
 4Making his angels spirits,{HR}His ministers a flaming fire.
 5He founded earth on its bases:{HR}It shall not be removed ever and ever. (Psa. 104:2‑5)
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Prov. 8:23‑27• 23I was set up from everlasting,{HR}From the beginning, before the earth was.
 24When no depths were, I was brought forth,{HR}When there were no fountains abounding with water.
 25Before the mountains were settled,{HR}Before the hills was I brought forth;
 26While as yet he had not made the earth,{HR}Nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
 27When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there;{HR}When he set the circle upon the face of the deep; (Prov. 8:23‑27)
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Isa. 40:22,26• 22[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a veil, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
 26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold. Who hath created these [things], bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and strength of power, not one faileth. (Isa. 40:22,26)
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Isa. 42:5• 5Thus saith God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein. (Isa. 42:5)
• His sway in the heavens (ver. 7). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• “He stretcheth out the north over the empty place.” The ball-like canopy of the northern skies, where the pole-star is suspended over emptiness, has no pillars to support it. In these few words, and those following, Job seems to have anticipated the great facts of astronomy regarding the earth and the heavens. He “hangeth the earth upon nothing”; how immeasurably above the cosmogonies of the heathen philosophers are these few grand words! (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;

W. Kelly Translation

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He spreadeth the north over the void,{HR}He hangeth the earth upon nothing.