King James Version
Job 41:16 in the King James Version says “One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.” — study this verse from Job chapter 41 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.”
Job 41:16 · KJV
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. scales: Heb. strong pieces of shields
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“is so near”
H5066to be or come (causatively, bring) near (for any purpose); euphemistically, to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack; religious to worship; causati
“that no air”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
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