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Job 38:9–10
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Job 38:9
9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it,
Job 38:10
10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
10And ‖brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores,
- Or, established my decree vpon it.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:9
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
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A visible mass of vapour in the sky; figuratively, a covering or multitude.
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An article of clothing; collectively, clothing or dress.
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Dense, deep, close, crowded, or not thin; also, to a great depth or in close succession.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:10
Determined judicially; resolved; appointed; established in purpose.
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A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 9
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Open the full verse study2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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Open the full verse study22Fear 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?
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Open the full verse study9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
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Open the full verse study10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
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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.
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Open the full verse study9¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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Open the full verse study15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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