Job 38:8
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
*Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?
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- *Cross-referencePsal. 104.9.
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- Genesis 1:9Rank 1 from verse 8
- Jeremiah 5:22Rank 2 from verse 8
22Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
22*Feare yee not mee, saith the LORD? Will yee not tremble at my presence, which haue placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetuall decree that it cannot passe it, and though the waues thereof tosse themselues, yet can they not preuaile, though they roare, yet can they not passe ouer it?
- Proverbs 8:29Rank 3 from verse 8
- Psalms 104:8–9Rank 4 from verse 8
8They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
8‖They go vp by the mountaines: they goe downe by the valleys vnto the place which thou hast founded for them.
9Thou hast set a bound that they may not passe ouer: that they turne not againe to couer the earth.
- Psalms 33:7Rank 5 from verse 8
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Job 38:8
To close, fasten, block, confine, stop, exclude, or make inaccessible.
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1. A great body or expanse of gathered waters, including a named sea or lake, in which ships and creatures move. 2. The large brazen or molten basin made for the temple and called a sea. 3. Something represented or compared as a sea.
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1. Outward, away, or forward from a place, person, possession, or former position. 2. In constructions of bearing or producing, into birth, growth, fruit, or another stated result. 3. With verbs such as put, stretch, spread, or reach, outward by extension or exertion. 4. In constructions of showing, speaking, issuing, or displaying, into view, expression, publication, or effect. 5. Onward from a stated time or point, as in from that time forth.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of issue, meaning to come or flow forth.
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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
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Sense 1: The bodily place in a female where a child is conceived and carried before birth. Sense 2: A source pictured as such a place.
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8*Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?
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