Job 38:8
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
סָגַר
çâgar
to shut up; figuratively, to surrender
יָם
yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif...
דֶּלֶת
deleth
something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor
שָׁבַר
shâbar
to burst (literally or figuratively)
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
נְגַד
nᵉgad
to flow (through the idea of clearing the way)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָם yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the sou...
Study H3220 →יָצָא yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Study H3318 →Cross References
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.
Fear 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...
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
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