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Job 38

Job 38:38 KJV (With Strong’s)

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When the dust
`aphar (Hebrew #6083)
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
KJV usage: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
Pronounce: aw-fawr'
Origin: from 6080
πgroweth
yatsaq (Hebrew #3332)
properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication, to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard
KJV usage: cast, cleave fast, be (as) firm, grow, be hard, lay out, molten, overflow, pour (out), run out, set down, stedfast.
Pronounce: yaw-tsak'
Origin: a primitive root
into hardness
muwtsaq (Hebrew #4165)
properly, fusion, i.e. literally, a casting (of metal); figuratively, a mass (of clay)
KJV usage: casting, hardness.
Pronounce: moo-tsawk'
Origin: from 5694
, and the clods
regeb (Hebrew #7263)
a lump of clay
KJV usage: clod.
Pronounce: reh'-gheb
Origin: from an unused root meaning to pile together
cleave fast together
dabaq (Hebrew #1692)
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
KJV usage: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.
Pronounce: daw-bak'
Origin: a primitive root
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is poured, or, is turned into mire.

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groweth into hardness.
or, is turned into mire.
Heb. ispoured.

J. N. Darby Translation

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When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?