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Psalm 8

Psa. 8:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The fowl
tsippowr (Hebrew #6833)
from 6852; a little bird (as hopping)
KJV usage: bird, fowl, sparrow.
Pronounce: tsip-pore'
Origin: or tsippor {tsip-pore'}
of the air
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
, and the fish
dag (Hebrew #1709)
from 1711; a fish (as prolific); or perhaps rather from 1672 (as timid); but still better from 1672 (in the sense of squirming, i.e. moving by the vibratory action of the tail); a fish (often used collectively)
KJV usage: fish.
Pronounce: dawg
Origin: or (fully) dag (Nehemiah 13:16) {dawg}
of the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
, and whatsoever passeth through
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
the paths
'orach (Hebrew #734)
a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan
KJV usage: manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-)way.
Pronounce: o'-rakh
Origin: from 732
of the seas
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
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Fish; Fishers; Fishing,
Fowl,
Sea

Cross References

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The fowl.
Psa. 148:10• 10Beasts and all cattle,{HR}Creeping things and birds of wing; (Psa. 148:10)
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Gen. 1:20‑25• 20And God said, Let the waters swarm a swarm of living creatures , and let birds fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.
 21And God created the great whales and every living creature that moveth with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was; good.
 22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
 23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
 24And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the field, after its kind. And it was so.
 25And God made beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after its kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. And God saw that [it was] good. (Gen. 1:20‑25)
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Job 38:39‑41• 39Dost thou hunt prey for the lioness,{HR}And fill the desire of the young lions,
 40When they couch in dens — abide in the covert in ambush?
 41Who provideth for the raven his meat,{HR}When his young cry to God [El] — wander without food? (Job 38:39‑41)
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Job 39:1‑30• 1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bear?{HR}Watchest thou over the calving of the hinds?
 2Numberest thou the months that they fulfil?{HR}And knowest thou the time of their bearing?
 3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young,{HR}They cast away their pangs.
 4Their young fatten, grow up in the desert,{HR}They go forth, and return to them no more!
 5Who sent forth the wild ass free,{HR}And who loosed the bands of the fleeing one?
 6Whose house I made the desert, and his abode the salt land.
 7He laugheth at the tumult of the city,{HR}The cries of the driver he heareth not,
 8The range of mountains [is] his pasture,{HR}And he seeketh after every green thing.
 9Will the wild ox choose to serve thee?{HR}Will he pass the night over thy crib?
 10Dost thou bind the wild ox in the furrow of his cord?{HR}Doth he harrow the valleys after thee?
 11Wilt thou trust him because his strength [is] great?{HR}And wilt thou leave unto him thy labour?
 12Dost thou trust him that he will bring back thy seed,{HR}And gather up thy threshing-floor?
 13The wing of the ostrich waveth joyously:{HR}Is it the pinion and plumage of the stork?
 14For she leaveth on the earth her eggs,{HR}And warmeth [them] on the dust,
 15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them,{HR}And that the wild beast may trample them.
 16She is hard on her young [as if ] not for her;{HR}Without fear her labour is in vain;
 17For God hath caused her to forget wisdom,{HR}And hath not given her a portion in understanding;
 18What time she lifteth herself up on high,{HR}She laugheth at the horse, and at his rider.
 19Dost thou give to the horse might?{HR}Dost thou clothe his neck with quivering mane?
 20Dost thou make him leap like the, locust?{HR}The majesty of his snorting is terrible.
 21They paw in the valley, and he exulteth in strength;{HR}He goeth forth to meet the armour.
 22He laugheth at fear, and trembleth not,{HR}Nor turneth back from the face of the sword.
 23Against him rattleth the quiver, the blade of spear and lance.
 24With rush and rage he swalloweth the ground,{HR}And stayeth not fixed when the trumpet soundeth.
 25Among the trumpets he saith, Aha!{HR}And from afar he scenteth the battle,{HR}The thunder of the chieftains, and the shouting.
 26Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom,{HR}And spread his pinions to the south?
 27Doth the eagle mount up at thy bidding,{HR}And build his nest on high?
 28He inhabiteth a rock, and lodgeth{HR}On the tooth of a rock, and a fastness.
 29Thence he espieth food; afar his eyes behold,
 30And his young ones lap blood,{HR}And where the slain [are], there [is] he. (Job 39:1‑30)
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Job 40:15‑24• 15Behold, now, Behemoth, which I made with thee:{HR}He eateth chives as an ox.
 16Behold, now, his strength [is] in his loins,{HR}And his might in the muscles of his belly.
 17As a cedar he bendeth his tail;{HR}The sinews of his thighs are knit together,
 18His bones [are] tubes of copper, his spine as a bar of iron.
 19He [is] chief of the ways of God:{HR}His Maker presented his scythe,
 20For the mountains bring food for him,{HR}And all the beasts of the field play there.
 21Under the lotuses he lieth down,{HR}In the covert of the reed and the fen;
 22The lotuses cover him with their shade,{HR}The osiers of the water-course cover him.
 23Lo, a flood overfloweth — he hasteth not away,{HR}He is confident when a Jordan rusheth to his mouth.
 24Doth [one] take him before his eyes?{HR}Doth [he] pierce through the nose with snares? (Job 40:15‑24)
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Job 41:1‑34• 1Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle,{HR}Or, with a cord thou lettest down, his tongue?
 2Dost thou put a rush in his nose,{HR}Or bore his jaw with a thorn?
 3Will he multiply supplications to thee?{HR}Will he speak to thee tender things?
 4Will he make a covenant with thee?{HR}Wilt thou take him [for] ever as a slave?
 5Wilt thou sport with him as a bird, and bind him for thy girls?
 6Let partners bargain for him — divide him among traders!
 7Dost thou fill his skin with pikes, or his head with fish-spears?
 8Put thine hand on him — remember the battle —{HR}Thou wilt not do it again:
 9Behold, his hope proveth false.{HR}Even at the sight of him is not [one] cast down?
 10None is so fierce as to provoke him.{HR}And who [is] he that maketh a stand before me?
 11Who first gave to me, and I must repay?{HR}Under the whole heaven it [is] mine.
 12I will not be silent about his parts,{HR}And the matter of his powers, and the beauty of his structure.
 13Who hath uncovered the face of his garment?{HR}Into his double jaws who entereth in?
 14The doors of his face, who hath opened?{HR}Round about his teeth [is] terror;
 15A pride [are] the concave shields, shut up [as] a close seal;
 16One to another they join, and air entereth not between them;
 17One to another they adhere, they hold together, and separate not.
 18His sneezing flasheth forth light,{HR}And his eyes [are] as eyelids of the dawn.
 19Out of his mouth proceed torches, sparks of fire escape.
 20Out of his nostrils issue the smoke,{HR}As out of a seething pot and caldron.
 21His breath kindleth coals,{HR}And a flame cometh out from his mouth.
 22In his neck strength lodgeth, and before him danceth terror.
 23The flakes of his flesh are fitted close together;{HR}They are fixed fast on him, immovable.
 24His heart [is] firm as a stone, as a nether [millstone].
 25At his rising up the mighty tremble;{HR}From terror they miss their mark.
 26The sword of his overtaker doth not hold, spear, mace, nor lance;
 27He reckoneth iron as straw, copper as rotten wood;
 28The bolt (child) of the bow causeth him not to flee;{HR}Sling-stones are changed into stubble for him;
 29Clubs are reckoned as stubble;{HR}He laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
 30His under parts [are] the sharpest of shards;{HR}He spreadeth a threshing-roller on the mire.
 31He maketh the deep boil as a pot,{HR}He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
 32After him he maketh the path to shine —{HR}One would think the deep hoary.
 33There is not on the dust dominion over him,{HR}Who is made to be without dread;
 34He looketh on all that is high,{HR}He [is] king over all the sons of pride. (Job 41:1‑34)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, whatever passeth through the paths of the seas.

W. Kelly Translation

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Birds of heaven and fishes of the sea,{HR}[That which] passes through the paths of the sea.