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Genesis 8:2
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Genesis 8:2
2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
2The fountaines also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the raine from heauen was restrained.
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DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 8:2
The sea; the abyss of waters; the ocean.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Openings in walls or structures that admit light, air, sight, or passage; also figures of openings in heaven.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The expanse above the earth, including the sky or firmament; also the dwelling or throne of God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Closed, blocked, or restrained so that water, passage, hearing, action, or escape could not continue.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Water falling in drops from the clouds; as a verb, to fall or pour down like rain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
restrained
Held back, checked, confined, or kept under control.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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Open the full verse study11¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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Open the full verse study26And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
27But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
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Open the full verse study28When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
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Open the full verse study11Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
12And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
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Open the full verse study37Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
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Open the full verse study3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
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Open the full verse study9For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
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