Job 36:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֭י יְגָרַ֣ע נִטְפֵי־מָ֑יִם יָזֹ֖קּוּ מָטָ֣ר לְאֵדֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

kî yəgāraʿ niṭp̄ê-māyim yāzōqqû māṭār lə-ʾēdô

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*yəgāraʿ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he draws/withdraws
*niṭp̄ê-māyim*: noun, masculine plural construct + noun, masculine plural - drops of water
*yāzōqqû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they distill/filter/pour down
*māṭār*: noun, masculine singular - rain
*lə-ʾēdô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - for his mist

Word Meanings

*yəgāraʿ*: draws/withdraws/diminishes
*niṭp̄ê*: drops/drippings
*yāzōqqû*: distill/filter/pour down
*māṭār*: rain/rainfall
*ʾēd*: mist/vapor/cloud

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Job 38:25-28 : 25 Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way for the lightning of the thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], And to cause the tender grass to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Ps 147:8 : 8 Who covereth the heavens with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Ps 148:8 : 8 Fire and hail, snow and vapor; Stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
Isa 5:6 : 6 and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.
Job 38:34 : 34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
Ps 65:9-9 : 9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth. 10 Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof. 11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; And thy paths drop fatness. 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness; And the hills are girded with joy. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered over with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.
Gen 2:5-6 : 5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground; 6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Job 5:9 : 9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
Job 36:33 : 33 The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning [the storm] that cometh up.

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