KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 28:25–26
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Job 28:25
25To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
25To make the weight for the windes, and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Job 28:26
26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
26When hee made a decree for the raine, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 28:25
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
Heaviness or a measured load; figuratively, a burden, importance, influence, force, or consequence.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Breath; power of respiration. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of gravity. To pay, allot or take by weight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
A standard or instrument for determining amount or size; an amount so determined; also to determine, allot, or proportion.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 28:26
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An authoritative order, determination, or appointed rule; also to order or establish authoritatively.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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
A sudden bright flash of light in the sky during a storm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 25
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Open the full verse study7He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
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Open the full verse study12¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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Open the full verse study15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
From verse 26
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Open the full verse study25Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
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Open the full verse study3He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
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Open the full verse study1ASK ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
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Open the full verse study7And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
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Open the full verse study22Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
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Open the full verse study26Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
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Open the full verse study32With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
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Open the full verse study11Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
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Open the full verse study27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
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Open the full verse study8Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
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Open the full verse study3The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
4The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
5The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
6He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
7The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire.
8The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
9The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
10The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.
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