Search Results for "Job.38.31"

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Band

The English word has two generic meanings, each shading off into several specific meanings: (1) that which holds together, binds or encircles: a bond; (2) a company of men. The second sense may philologically and logically have been derived from the first, men being held together by social ties. Bot...

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Astronomy, II

The principal achievement of the science of astronomy in the centuries during which the books of the Old Testament were written was the arrangement and naming of the constellations, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the same system was known to the Hebrews as that which has been handed down ...

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Bind; Bound

bind (deo): There are a number of Hebrew words used to express this word in its various meanings, 'alam (Ge 37:7), 'acar (Ge 42:24), qashar (De 6:8). It sometimes means "to attach," "to fasten" (Ex 28:28; De 14:25). It was used also with reference to an agreement in a judicial sense (Nu 30:2-3), or ...

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Influences

in'-floo-ens-iz (ma`adhannoth): This word occurs only in Job 38:31 the King James Version, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?" the Revised Version (British and American) "the cluster of the Pleiades," margin "or chain, or sweet influences"; Delitzsch, Dillmann and others render "fett...