2 Chronicles 7:13
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
סָגַר
çâgar
to shut up; figuratively, to surrender
שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r...
צָוָה
tsâvâh
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
אַרְבֶּה
ʼarbeh
a locust (from its rapid increase)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
שָׁלַח
shâlach
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁלַח shâlach
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Study H7971 →שָׁמַיִם shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
Study H8064 →Cross References
And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the L...
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man...
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
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