KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 38:16–17
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Job 38:16
16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
16Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
Job 38:17
17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
17Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadow of death?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:16
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Went or came in; was admitted, introduced, or penetrated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Sources or streams of water flowing from the ground.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To seek carefully, examine, explore, or inquire in order to find or know.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Deepness, a deep place, the sea, abyss, or downward or inward extent.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 38:17
Made open, uncovered, unsealed, revealed, or made accessible.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Shade from light; a dark outline; or a figure of protection, transience, or a coming reality, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
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Open the full verse study5Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
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Open the full verse study19Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
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Open the full verse study36Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study13Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
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Open the full verse study18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
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Open the full verse study5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Open the full verse study22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
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Open the full verse study10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
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Open the full verse study14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
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Open the full verse study4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
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Open the full verse study8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:
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Open the full verse study16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
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Open the full verse study3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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