Job 38:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִי־שָׂ֣ם מְ֭מַדֶּיהָ כִּ֣י תֵדָ֑ע א֤וֹ מִֽי־נָטָ֖ה עָלֶ֣יהָ קָּֽו׃

Transliteration

Who-śām məmaddeyhā that tēdāʿ? Or who-nāṭâ upon-her qāw?

Grammar Details

*mî*: interrogative pronoun - who?
*śām*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - set/placed/established
*məmaddeyhā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her measurements
*kî*: conjunction - that/because/for
*tēdāʿ*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you know
*ʾô*: conjunction - or
*nāṭâ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - stretched out/extended
*ʿāleyhā*: preposition with 3rd feminine singular suffix - upon her/over her
*qāw*: noun, masculine singular - measuring line/cord

Word Meanings

*śām*: set/placed/determined
*məmaddeyhā*: her measurements/her dimensions
*tēdāʿ*: you know/you understand
*nāṭâ*: stretched out/extended/spread out
*qāw*: measuring line/cord/string

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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

Isa 40:12 : 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Job 11:9 : 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.
Job 28:25 : 25 To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
Ps 19:4 : 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Ps 78:55 : 55 He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Prov 8:27 : 27 When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
Isa 34:11 : 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
Isa 40:22 : 22 [ It is] he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
Zech 2:1-2 : 1 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
2 Cor 10:16 : 16 so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

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