Job 38:10

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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,	And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,	And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And brake up^H7665 for it my decreed^H2706 place, and set^H7760 bars^H1280 and doors^H1817,

Original Hebrew

וָאֶשְׁבֹּר עָלָיו חֻקִּי וָאָשִׂים בְּרִיחַ וּדְלָתָיִם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וָ/אֶשְׁבֹּ֣ר	va./'esh.Bor	H7665	HC/Vqw1cs	and/ I broke
עָלָ֣י/ו	'a.La/v	H5921	HR/Sp3ms	on/ it
חֻקִּ֑/י	chu.K/i	H2706	HNcmsc/Sp1cs	boundary/ my
וָֽ֝/אָשִׂ֗ים	va./'a.Sim	H7760	HC/Vqw1cs	and/ I set in place
בְּרִ֣יחַ	be.Ri.ach	H1280	HNcmsa	a bar
וּ/דְלָתָֽיִם	u./de.la.Ta.yim	H1817	HC/Ncfda	and/ doors

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

Strong's References

H1280 — בְּרִיחַ (bᵉrîyach, ber-ee'-akh): from בָּרַח; a bolt; bar, fugitive.
H1817 — דֶּלֶת (deleth, deh'-leth): from דָּלָה; something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor; door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).
H2706 — חֹק (chôq, khoke): from חָקַק; an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage); appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, [idiom] necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
H7665 — שָׁבַר (shâbar, shaw-bar'): a primitive root; to burst (literally or figuratively); break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken (-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, [idiom] quite, tear, view (by mistake for שָׂבַר).
H7760 — שׂוּם (sûwm, soom): or שִׂים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase] name, [idiom] on, ordain, order, [phrase] paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), [phrase] regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, [phrase] stedfastly, take, [idiom] tell, [phrase] tread down, (over-)turn, [idiom] wholly, work.

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

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

brake up for it my decreed place — Genesis 1:9-10, Genesis 9:15, Job 26:10, Psalms 104:9, Jeremiah 5:22

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