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Job 38:5
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Job 38:5
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
5Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line vpon it?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:5
Placed, set down, imposed, or arranged.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Standards, vessels, or amounts used in measuring; also determines, allots, or proportions.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Drawn out in length; extended; exerted to the utmost.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A cord, thread, measuring line, boundary, extent, allotted sphere, or repeated course of instruction, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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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 study9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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Open the full verse study1I LIFTED up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
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Open the full verse study16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
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Open the full verse study11¶ But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
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Open the full verse study22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
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Open the full verse study25To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
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Open the full verse study27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
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Open the full verse study4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
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Open the full verse study55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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Open the full verse study29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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