Job 38:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath 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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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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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 the weight for the winds; and he weigheth 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 cast out{H8762)} the heathen also before them, and divided{H8686)} them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell{H8686)} in their tents.
Prov 8:27 : 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Isa 34:11 : 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Isa 40:22 : 22 It is he that sitteth upon 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 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, 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 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

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