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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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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 38:10• 10Y establecí sobre ella mi decreto, Y le puse puertas y cerrojo, (Job 38:10)
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Gn. 1:9• 9Y dijo Dios: Júntense las aguas que están debajo de los cielos en un lugar, y descúbrase la seca: y fué así. (Gn. 1:9)
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Sal. 33:7• 7El junta como en un montón las aguas de la mar: El pone en depósitos los abismos. (Sal. 33:7)
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Sal. 104:9• 9Pusísteles término, el cual no traspasarán; Ni volverán á cubrir la tierra. (Sal. 104:9)
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Pr. 8:29• 29Cuando ponía á la mar su estatuto, Y á las aguas, que no pasasen su mandamiento; Cuando establecía los fundamentos de la tierra; (Pr. 8:29)
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Jer. 5:22• 22¿A mí no temeréis? dice Jehová; ¿no os amedrentaréis á mi presencia, que al mar por ordenación eterna, la cual no quebrantará, puse arena por término? Se levantarán tempestades, mas no prevalecerán; bramarán sus ondas, mas no lo pasarán. (Jer. 5:22)
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Job 38:29• 29¿De qué vientre salió el hielo? Y la escarcha del cielo, ¿quién la engendró? (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?