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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 the empty place, and 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, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them. (1 Sam. 2:8)
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Psa. 24:2• 2For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. (Psa. 24:2)
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Psa. 93:1• 1The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. (Psa. 93:1)
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Psa. 104:5• 5Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. (Psa. 104:5)
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Zech. 12:1• 1The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth 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 they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: (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 sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
 20And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
 21And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
 22And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
 23And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
 24And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
 25And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. (Ex. 26:18‑25)
fastened.
Heb. made to sink.
or.
Psa. 118:22• 22The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone 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; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: (Psa. 144:12)
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Isa. 28:16• 16Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. (Isa. 28:16)
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Eph. 2:20‑21• 20And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
 21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an 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,