Job 26:7

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Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.	He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.	He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

He stretcheth out^H5186 the north^H6828 over the empty place^H8414, and hangeth^H8518 the earth^H776 upon nothing^H1099.

Original Hebrew

נֹטֶה צָפֹון עַל־תֹּהוּ תֹּלֶה אֶרֶץ עַל־בְּלִי־מָה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
נֹטֶ֣ה	no.Teh	H5186	HVqrmsa	(he) stretches out
צָפ֣וֹן	tza.Fon	H6828	HNcfsa	(the) north
עַל	'al-	H5921	HR	over
תֹּ֑הוּ	To.hu	H8414	HNcmsa	emptiness
תֹּ֥לֶה	To.leh	H8518	HVqrmsa	(he) hangs
אֶ֝֗רֶץ	'E.retz	H776	HNcbsa	(the) earth
עַל	'al-	H5921	HR	on
בְּלִי	be.li-	H1099	HTn	not
מָֽה	Mah	H1099	HTi	whatever

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
H1099 — בְּלִימָה (bᵉlîymâh, bel-ee-mah'): from בְּלִי and מָה; (as indefinitely) nothing whatever; nothing.
H5186 — נָטָה (nâṭâh, naw-taw'): a primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application; [phrase] afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
H6828 — צָפוֹן (tsâphôwn, tsaw-fone'): or צָפֹן; from צָפַן; properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as aquarter (gloomy and unknown); north(-ern, side, -ward, wind).
H8414 — תֹּהוּ (tôhûw, to'-hoo): from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain; confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
H8518 — תָּלָה (tâlâh, taw-law'): a primitive root; to suspend (especially to gibbet); hang (up).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

Cross References

Related Topics

Thompson Chain: CREATOR, EARTH, NORTH
Nave’s: ASTRONOMY, CONTINENTS, EARTH, GOD, METEOROLOGY AND CELESTIAL PHENOMENA, SCIENCE

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