Job 24:8
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רָבִיב
râbîyb
a rain (as an accumulation of drops)
הַר
har
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
חָבַק
châbaq
to clasp (the hands or in embrace)
צוּר
tsûwr
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
מַחְסוֹר
machçôwr
deficiency; hence, impoverishment
מַחֲסֶה
machăçeh
a shelter (literally or figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
צוּר tsûwr
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
Study H6697 →Cross References
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of...
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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