King James Version
Job 28:27 in the King James Version says “Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. declare: or, number it” — study this verse from Job chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. declare: or, number it”
Job 28:27 · KJV
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. declare: or, number it
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Then did he see”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“it and declare”
H5608properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e., (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e., celebra
“it he prepared”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“it yea and searched it out”
H2713properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately
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