KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 38:32–34
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Job 38:32
32Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
32Canst thou bring forth ‖Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou †guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
- Or, the twelue signes.
- Heb. guide them.
Job 38:33
33Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
33Knowest thou the ordinances of heauen? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Job 38:34
34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
34Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes, that abundance of waters may couer thee?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:32
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An appointed time or period; as a verb, to prepare, mature, or make suitable.
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A person who leads or directs another in his way or course; a conductor. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Arcturus, the star or constellation named in Job.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 38:33
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)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Rule, lordship, authority, or the realm under such rule.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
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Job 38:34
To raise, bear up, exalt, or take away; also an act of raising.
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Visible masses of condensed vapour in the sky; also figures of covering, multitude, or obscurity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Great plenty; an overflowing quantity; ample sufficiency; in strictness applicable to quantity only; but customarily used of number, as an abundance of peasants.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 32
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Open the full verse study31Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
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Open the full verse study5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
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Open the full verse study9Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
From verse 33
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Open the full verse study35¶ Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:
36If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
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Open the full verse study22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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Open the full verse study16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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Open the full verse study25Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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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 study6He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
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Open the full verse study90Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
91They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
From verse 34
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Open the full verse study11Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
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Open the full verse study18So Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
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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 study18And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
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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 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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