King James Version
Psalms 104:6 in the King James Version says “Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 104 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.”
Psalms 104:6 · KJV
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever . Who: Heb. He hath founded the earth upon her bases
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. They go up: or, The mountains ascend, the valleys descend
KJV Study — Public Domain
“it with the deep”
H8415an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
“as with a garment”
H3830a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphemistically) a wife
“Thou coveredst”
H3680properly, to plump, i.e., fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“stood”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
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