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Psalm 78

Psa. 78:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He clave
baqa` (Hebrew #1234)
to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open
KJV usage: make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.
Pronounce: baw-kah'
Origin: a primitive root
a the rocks
tsuwr (Hebrew #6697)
from 6696; properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
KJV usage: edge, X (mighty) God (one), rock, X sharp, stone, X strength, X strong. See also 1049.
Pronounce: tsoor
Origin: or tsur {tsoor}
in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, and gave them drink
shaqah (Hebrew #8248)
to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to
KJV usage: cause to (give, give to, let, make to) drink, drown, moisten, water. See 7937, 8354.
Pronounce: shaw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
as out of the great
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
depths
thowm (Hebrew #8415)
(usually feminine) from 1949; an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water-supply)
KJV usage: deep (place), depth.
Pronounce: teh-home'
Origin: or thom {teh-home'}
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Ex. 17:6• 6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock on Horeb; and thou shalt strike the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel. (Ex. 17:6)
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Num. 20:11• 11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his staff smote the rock twice, and much water came out, and the assembly drank, and their beasts. (Num. 20:11)
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1 Cor. 10:3‑4• 3and all ate the same spiritual food,
 4and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (1 Cor. 10:3‑4)

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Cross References

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Psa. 105:41• 41He opened the rock, and waters gushed forth; they ran in the dry places like a river. (Psa. 105:41)
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Psa. 114:8• 8Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters. (Psa. 114:8)
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Ex. 17:6• 6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock on Horeb; and thou shalt strike the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel. (Ex. 17:6)
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Num. 20:11• 11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his staff smote the rock twice, and much water came out, and the assembly drank, and their beasts. (Num. 20:11)
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Isa. 41:18• 18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs. (Isa. 41:18)
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Isa. 43:20• 20The beast of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I will give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the waste, to give drink to my people, my chosen. (Isa. 43:20)
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John 7:37‑38• 37In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.
 38He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7:37‑38)
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1 Cor. 10:4• 4and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (1 Cor. 10:4)
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Rev. 22:1,17• 1And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
 17And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come; he that will, let him take the water of life freely. (Rev. 22:1,17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly;