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Job 38

Job 38:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Have the gates
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
d of death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
been opened
galah (Hebrew #1540)
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
KJV usage: + advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, X plainly, publish, remove, reveal, X shamelessly, shew, X surely, tell, uncover.
Pronounce: gaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
unto thee? or hast thou seen
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
the doors
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
of the shadow of death
tsalmaveth (Hebrew #6757)
shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity)
KJV usage: shadow of death.
Pronounce: tsal-maw'-veth
Origin: from 6738 and 4194
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Psa. 9:13• 13Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: (Psa. 9:13)

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Ministry on This Verse

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the gates.
Psa. 9:13• 13Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: (Psa. 9:13)
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Psa. 107:18• 18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. (Psa. 107:18)
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Psa. 116:3• 3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. (Psa. 116:3)
the shadow.
Job 3:5• 5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. (Job 3:5)
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Job 12:22• 22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. (Job 12:22)
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Psa. 23:4• 4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psa. 23:4)
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Psa. 107:10,14• 10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
 14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. (Psa. 107:10,14)
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Amos 5:8• 8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: (Amos 5:8)
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Matt. 4:16• 16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. (Matt. 4:16)
• The hidden depths of the sea with its countless dead; the gates of death and what lies beyond. Has Job searched this out? (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?