Job 37:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י לַשֶּׁ֨לַג ׀ יֹאמַ֗ר הֱוֵ֫א אָ֥רֶץ וְגֶ֥שֶׁם מָטָ֑ר וְ֝גֶ֗שֶׁם מִטְר֥וֹת עֻזּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

kî laš-šeleg yōʾmar hĕwēʾ ʾāreṣ wə-gešem māṭār wə-gešem miṭrôt ʿuzzô

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*laš-šeleg*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - to the snow
*yōʾmar*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he says
*hĕwēʾ*: qal imperative, masculine singular - be/fall
*ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth/land
*wə-gešem*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and shower/rain
*māṭār*: noun, masculine singular - rain
*miṭrôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - rains of
*ʿuzzô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his strength

Word Meanings

*kî*: for/because/when
*hĕwēʾ*: be/fall/happen
*gešem*: shower/rain/downpour
*māṭār*: rain/precipitation
*miṭrôt*: rains/downpours/showers
*ʿuzzô*: his strength/his might/his power

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Referenced Verses

Job 36:27 : 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
Job 38:22 : 22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
Ps 147:16-18 : 16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? 18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Ps 148:8 : 8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Prov 28:3 : 3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Ezek 13:11 : 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Ezek 13:13 : 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Amos 9:6 : 6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
Matt 7:25-27 : 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Gen 7:10-12 : 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Ezra 10:9 : 9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra 10:13 : 13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.

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Job 36:27-29
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