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Job 38

Job 38:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Or who shut up
cakak (Hebrew #5526)
a primitive root; properly, to entwine as a screen; by implication, to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protect
KJV usage: cover, defence, defend, hedge in, join together, set, shut up.
Pronounce: saw-kak'
Origin: or sakak (Exod. 33:22) {saw-kak'}
the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
with doors
deleth (Hebrew #1817)
something swinging, i.e. the valve of a door
KJV usage: door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (In Psa. 141:3, dal, irreg.).
Pronounce: deh'-leth
Origin: from 1802
, when it brake forth
giyach (Hebrew #1518)
a primitive root; to gush forth (as water), generally to issue
KJV usage: break forth, labor to bring forth, come forth, draw up, take out.
Pronounce: ghee'-akh
Origin: or (shortened) goach {go'-akh}
, as if it had issued out
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
of the womb
rechem (Hebrew #7358)
the womb (compare 7356)
KJV usage: matrix, womb.
Pronounce: rekh'-em
Origin: from 7355
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Job 38:10• 10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, (Job 38:10)
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Gen. 1:9• 9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. (Gen. 1:9)
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Psa. 33:7• 7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. (Psa. 33:7)
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Psa. 104:9• 9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth. (Psa. 104:9)
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Prov. 8:29• 29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: (Prov. 8:29)
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Jer. 5:22• 22Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? (Jer. 5:22)
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Job 38:29• 29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? (Job 38:29)
• The bounds of the sea (vers. 8-11). (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)
• Jehovah passes from the earth to “that great and wide sea,” which is described not in its original creation, as part of the heavens and the earth, but as gushing forth from its mother’s womb. It covered the whole face of the world, and “darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Left to itself it would have enveloped all; but its Maker was its Master, and set bounds to it, breaking as it were into great mountain chains to make a place for it, barred and closed to all egress. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?