King James Version
Proverbs 8:24 in the King James Version says “When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.”
Proverbs 8:24 · KJV
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. fields: or, open places the highest: or, the chief part
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“When there were no depths”
H8415an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
“I was brought forth”
H2342properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e., (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear; fi
“when there were no fountains”
H4599a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction)
“abounding”
H3513to be heavy, i.e., in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same
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