Job 38:28

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To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?	Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?	Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Hath^H3426 the rain^H4306 a father^H1? or who hath begotten^H3205 the drops^H96 of dew^H2919?

Original Hebrew

הֲיֵשׁ־לַמָּטָר אָב אֹו מִי־הֹולִיד אֶגְלֵי־טָל׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
הֲ/יֵשׁ	ha./yesh-	H3426	HTi/Tm	¿/ (is) there
לַ/מָּטָ֥ר	la./ma.Tar	H4306	HRd/Ncmsa	for the/ rain
אָ֑ב	'Av	H1	HNcmsa	a father
א֥וֹ	'o	H176	HC	or
מִי	mi-	H4310	HTi	who?
ה֝וֹלִ֗יד	ho.Lid	H3205	HVhp3ms	does he father
אֶגְלֵי	'eg.lei-	H96	HNcmpc	(the) drops of
טָֽל	Tal	H2919	HNcmsa	dew

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

Strong's References

H1 — אָב (ʼâb, awb): a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application; chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
H96 — אֶגֶל (ʼegel, eh'-ghel): from an unused root (meaning to flow down or together as drops); a reservoir; drop.
H2919 — טַל (ṭal, tal): from טָלַל; dew (as covering vegetation); dew.
H3205 — יָלַד (yâlad, yaw-lad'): a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage; bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
H3426 — יֵשׁ (yêsh, yaysh): perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (הָיָה); there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection); (there) are, (he, it, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should) be, thou do, had, hast, (which) hath, (I, shalt, that) have, (he, it, there) is, substance, it (there) was, (there) were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest.
H4306 — מָטַר (mâṭar, maw-tawr'): from מָטַר; rain; rain.

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

H176 — אוֹ (ʼôw, o): presumed to be the 'constructive' or genitival form of אַו ; short for אַוָּה; desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if; also, and, either, if, at the least, [idiom] nor, or, otherwise, then, whether.
H4310 — מִי (mîy, me): an interrogative pronoun of persons, as מָה is of things,; who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix; any (man), [idiom] he, [idiom] him, [phrase] O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), [phrase] would to God.

Cross References

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

dew — Genesis 27:28, Genesis 27:39, Deuteronomy 33:13, Deuteronomy 33:28, 2 Samuel 1:21, 1 Kings 17:1, Job 29:19, Proverbs 3:20, Hosea 14:5
Hath the — 1 Samuel 12:17-18, Job 5:9-10, Job 38:8, Psalms 65:9-10, Jeremiah 5:24, Jeremiah 10:13, Jeremiah 14:22, Joel 2:23, Amos 4:7, Matthew 5:45

Reciprocal references (2): Genesis 2:4, Psalms 90:2

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