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Job 38

Job 38:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whereupon are the ηfoundations
'eden (Hebrew #134)
a basis (of a building, a column, etc.)
KJV usage: foundation, socket.
Pronounce: eh'-den
Origin: from the same as 113 (in the sense of strength)
thereof θfastened
taba` (Hebrew #2883)
to sink
KJV usage: drown, fasten, settle, sink.
Pronounce: taw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
? or who laid
yarah (Hebrew #3384)
{yaw-raw'}; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
KJV usage: (+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
Pronounce: yaw-raw'
Origin: or (2 Chr. 26:15) yara
the corner
pinnah (Hebrew #6438)
an angle; by implication, a pinnacle; figuratively, a chieftain
KJV usage: bulwark, chief, corner, stay, tower.
Pronounce: pin-naw'
Origin: feminine of 6434
stone
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
thereof;
η
sockets.
θ
made to sink.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Whereupon.
Job 26:7• 7He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing; (Job 26:7)
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1 Sam. 2:8• 8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set him among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and he hath set the world upon them. (1 Sam. 2:8)
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Psa. 24:2• 2For it was he that founded it upon seas, and established it upon floods. (Psa. 24:2)
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Psa. 93:1• 1Jehovah reigneth, he hath clothed himself with majesty: Jehovah hath clothed himself, he hath girded himself with strength; yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved. (Psa. 93:1)
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Psa. 104:5• 5He laid the earth upon its foundations: it shall not be removed for ever. (Psa. 104:5)
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Zech. 12:1• 1The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretcheth out the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him: (Zech. 12:1)
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2 Peter 3:5• 5For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God, (2 Peter 3:5)
foundations.
Heb. sockets.
Ex. 26:18‑25• 18And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
 19And thou shalt make forty bases of silver under the twenty boards; two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons.
 20And for the other side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards.
 21And their forty bases of silver; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board.
 22And for the rear of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
 23And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear;
 24and they shall be joined beneath, and together shall be united at the top thereof to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
 25And there shall be eight boards, and their bases, of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board. (Ex. 26:18‑25)
fastened.
Heb. made to sink.
or.
Psa. 118:22• 22The stone which the builders rejected hath become the head of the corner: (Psa. 118:22)
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Psa. 144:12• 12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace: (Psa. 144:12)
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Isa. 28:16• 16Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I lay for foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation: he that trusteth shall not make haste. (Isa. 28:16)
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Eph. 2:20‑21• 20being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,
 21in whom all the building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord; (Eph. 2:20‑21)
• Where was he when the great Architect laid its foundations, sunk, not in the shifting sands, or upon the lasting rock, but in the empty space of apparent nothingness? (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,