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Job 38:37 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Who can number
caphar (Hebrew #5608)
properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate
KJV usage: commune, (ac-)count; declare, number, + penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
Pronounce: saw-far'
Origin: a primitive root
the clouds
shachaq (Hebrew #7834)
a powder (as beaten small): by analogy, a thin vapor; by extension, the firmament
KJV usage: cloud, small dust, heaven, sky.
Pronounce: shakh'-ak
Origin: from 7833
in wisdom
chokmah (Hebrew #2451)
wisdom (in a good sense)
KJV usage: skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
Pronounce: khok-maw'
Origin: from 2449
? or who can νstay
shakab (Hebrew #7901)
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
KJV usage: X at all, cast down, ((lover-))lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
Pronounce: shaw-kab'
Origin: a primitive root
the bottles
nebel (Hebrew #5035)
from 5034; a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form)
KJV usage: bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol.
Pronounce: neh'-bel
Origin: or nebel {nay'-bel}
of heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
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cause to lie down.

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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number.
Gen. 15:5• 5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. (Gen. 15:5)
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Psa. 147:4• 4He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. (Psa. 147:4)
or who.
Gen. 8:1• 1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; (Gen. 8:1)
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Gen. 9:15• 15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. (Gen. 9:15)
stay.
Heb. cause to lie down.
• May the spirit of the Psalms, the 8th, and the, 9th, the 104th, and the “Hallelujah Chorus” of the closing psalms, be upon us as we survey it all. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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37
Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,