KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 38:21–25
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Job 38:21
21Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
21Knowest thou it, because thou wast then borne? or because the number of thy daies is great?
Job 38:22
22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
22Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snowe? or hast thou seene the treasures of the haile,
Job 38:23
23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
23Which I haue reserued against the time of trouble, against the day of battaile and warre?
Job 38:24
24By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
24By what way is the light parted? which scattereth the East wind vpon the earth.
Job 38:25
25Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
25Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:21
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A count or quantity; also to count, reckon, appoint, or include among a group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Job 38:22
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
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Went or came in; was admitted, introduced, or penetrated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Valuable things laid up; also to store or keep as precious.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Frozen precipitation falling or lying in white flakes.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Frozen drops of precipitation; also an exclamation of greeting or acclaim.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:23
Kept, held back, or preserved for the later person, purpose, event, or time named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Disturbance, affliction, distress, vexation, or difficulty; also, to disturb, distress, afflict, or inconvenience.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A fight or armed conflict; also, troops drawn up for fighting.
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Armed conflict; as a verb, to fight or contend.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:24
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Separated; divided; severed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The direction of sunrise; lands or regions toward that direction.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Breath; power of respiration. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:25
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
watercourse
A channel or canal for the conveyance of water, particularly in draining lands; a stream of water; a river or brook.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
overflowing
Spreading over, as a fluid; inundating; running over the brim or banks.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A sudden bright flash of light in the sky during a storm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 21
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Open the full verse study7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
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Open the full verse study12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
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Open the full verse study4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
From verse 22
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Open the full verse study6For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
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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 study16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
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Open the full verse study7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
From verse 23
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Open the full verse study11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
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Open the full verse study30And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
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Open the full verse study18Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
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Open the full verse study11Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
12Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
13Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
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Open the full verse study13But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
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Open the full verse study21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
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Open the full verse study24So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
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Open the full verse study31For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
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Open the full verse study27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
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Open the full verse study8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
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Open the full verse study27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
From verse 25
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Open the full verse study26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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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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Open the full verse study27For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
28Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
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Open the full verse study3He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
4After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
5God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
6For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
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