KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 104:2–3
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Psalms 104:2
2Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
2Who couerest thy selfe with light, as with a garment: who stretchest out the heauens like a curtaine.
Psalms 104:3
3Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
3Who layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, who maketh the cloudes his charet: who walketh vpon the wings of the wind.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 104:2
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An article of clothing; collectively, clothing or dress.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 104:3
Places, sets, puts, applies, or imposes. In KJV phrases, it may mean stores up, reveals, brings low, grasps, regards, establishes, sets an ambush, or attacks.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 (facsimile-linked witness) · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
Large, long pieces of timber used as supports, bars, or weavers' beams; in the eye figure, conspicuous faults.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Rooms or enclosed spaces within a house, building, or other structure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Visible masses of condensed vapour in the sky; also figures of covering, multitude, or obscurity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A wheeled vehicle used for travel or war.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Limbs by which birds or flying creatures fly; by extension, sides or extremities and figures of shelter or speed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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)
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From verse 2
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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 study9¶ I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
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Open the full verse study12I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
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Open the full verse study5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
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Open the full verse study16Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
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Open the full verse study10And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
11They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
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Open the full verse study2And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
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Open the full verse study1THE burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study6It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he 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 study11And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
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Open the full verse study1THE burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
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Open the full verse study10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
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Open the full verse study3The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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Open the full verse study9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
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Open the full verse study64Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
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Open the full verse study7Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
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