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Job 26

Job 26:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Dead
rapha' (Hebrew #7496)
properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
KJV usage: dead, deceased.
Pronounce: raw-faw'
Origin: from 7495 in the sense of 7503
things are formed
chuwl (Hebrew #2342)
a primitive root; properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear; figuratively, to wait, to pervert
KJV usage: bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to) calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with pain), fear, form, great, grieve, (be) grievous, hope, look, make, be in pain, be much (sore) pained, rest, shake, shapen, (be) sorrow(-ful), stay, tarry, travail (with pain), tremble, trust, wait carefully (patiently), be wounded.
Pronounce: khool
Origin: or chiyl {kheel}
from under the waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
, μand the inhabitants
shakan (Hebrew #7931)
to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: abide, continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-er), have habitation, inhabit, lay, place, (cause to) remain, rest, set (up).
Pronounce: shaw-kan'
Origin: a primitive root (apparently akin (by transmission) to 7901 through the idea of lodging; compare 5531, 7925)
thereof.
μ
or, with.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Dead things.Or, "The giants {rephaïm} are in anguish under the waters and their inhabitants;" probably in allusion to the destruction of the earth by the deluge.
Job 41:1‑34• 1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
 2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
 3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
 4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
 5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
 6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
 7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
 8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
 9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
 10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
 11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
 12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
 13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
 14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
 15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
 16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
 17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
 18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
 19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
 20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
 21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
 22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
 24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
 25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
 26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
 27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
 28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
 29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
 30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
 31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
 32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
 33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
 34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. (Job 41:1‑34)
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Gen. 6:4• 4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (Gen. 6:4)
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Psa. 104:25‑26• 25So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
 26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. (Psa. 104:25‑26)
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Ezek. 29:3‑5• 3Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
 4But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
 5And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. (Ezek. 29:3‑5)
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or, with.
• God’s domain in the depths beneath (vers. 5-6). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• Bildad had dwelt upon the glories of God as displayed in the heavens; Job declares His domain in the depths. It is not “dead things,” but rather the “shades,” the “things under the earth” (Phil. 2:10). This may refer to the evil spirits, to infernal things; and, according to the manner of the Old Testament, to Sheol and its inhabitants. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;