Job 38:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּ֣סֶךְ בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ מֵרֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא׃

Transliteration

And-yāsek with-dĕlātayim yām when-gîḥô from-reḥem yēṣēʾ.

Grammar Details

*wə-*: conjunction - and
*yāsek*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - he shut up/enclosed
*bə*: preposition - in/when
*dĕlātayim*: noun, feminine dual - doors/gates
*yām*: noun, masculine singular - sea
*gîḥô*: qal infinitive construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its bursting forth
*min*: preposition - from
*reḥem*: noun, masculine singular - womb
*yēṣēʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it came out

Word Meanings

*yāsek*: he shut up/he enclosed/he confined
*dĕlātayim*: doors/gates/double doors
*gîḥô*: its bursting forth/its gushing out
*reḥem*: womb/matrix/birth

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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

Gen 1:9 : 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
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;
Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
Ps 104:8-9 : 8 (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Job 38:10 : 10 And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

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