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Job 40

Job 40:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, he γdrinketh up
`ashaq (Hebrew #6231)
to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow
KJV usage: get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress((-ion)), -or), do violence (wrong).
Pronounce: aw-shak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 6229)
a river
nahar (Hebrew #5104)
a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
KJV usage: flood, river.
Pronounce: naw-hawr'
Origin: from 5102
, and hasteth
chaphaz (Hebrew #2648)
properly, to start up suddenly, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, to fear
KJV usage: (make) haste (away), tremble.
Pronounce: khaw-faz'
Origin: a primitive root
not: he trusteth
batach (Hebrew #982)
properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as 2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
KJV usage: be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.
Pronounce: baw-takh'
Origin: a primitive root
that he can draw up
giyach (Hebrew #1518)
a primitive root; to gush forth (as water), generally to issue
KJV usage: break forth, labor to bring forth, come forth, draw up, take out.
Pronounce: ghee'-akh
Origin: or (shortened) goach {go'-akh}
Jordan
Yarden (Hebrew #3383)
a descender; Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
KJV usage: Jordan.
Pronounce: yar-dane'
Origin: from 3381
into his mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
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appresseth.

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Jordan,
River

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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drinketh.
Heb. oppresseth.
Isa. 37:25• 25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. (Isa. 37:25)
hasteth.
Psa. 55:8• 8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. (Psa. 55:8)
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Isa. 28:16• 16Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. (Isa. 28:16)
Jordan.
Gen. 13:10• 10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. (Gen. 13:10)
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Josh. 3:15• 15And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) (Josh. 3:15)
• He fears nothing, even if a raging flood should seek to engulf him. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Lo, the river overfloweth—he startleth not: he is confident though a Jordan break forth against his mouth.