Job 37:6
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
שֶׁלֶג
sheleg
snow (probably from its whiteness)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
יַחַד
yachad
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
קָטָן
qâṭân
abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
כֹּחַ
kôach
vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
Key Terms in This Verse
קָטָן qâṭân
abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
Study H6996 →כֹּחַ kôach
vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
Study H3581 →Cross References
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
It 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 n...
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of...
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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