Job 36:30

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵן־פָּרַ֣שׂ עָלָ֣יו אוֹר֑וֹ וְשָׁרְשֵׁ֖י הַיָּ֣ם כִּסָּֽה׃

Transliteration

hēn-pāraś ʿālāyw ʾôrô wə-šāršê hayyām kissāh

Grammar Details

*hēn-pāraś*: interjection + Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - behold, he spreads
*ʿālāyw*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - over it/him
*ʾôrô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his light
*wə-šāršê*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct - and roots of
*hayyām*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the sea
*kissāh*: Piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he covers

Word Meanings

*pāraś*: spreads/scatters/disperses
*ʾôr*: light/lightning/illumination
*šāršê*: roots/depths/foundations
*yām*: sea/ocean
*kissāh*: covers/conceals/hides

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Referenced Verses

Gen 1:9 : 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Exod 14:22 : 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Exod 14:28 : 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Exod 15:4-5 : 4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. 5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, 10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Job 38:25 : 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
Job 38:34-35 : 34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? 35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
Ps 18:11-16 : 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. 12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. 13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. 14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. 16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Ps 104:5-9 : 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Luke 17:24 : 24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

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