KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Job 28:24 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “For” | כִּי | (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed | For |
| “he” | ה֭וּא | He (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are | he |
| “looketh” | יַבִּ֑יט | To scan, i.e., look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care | looketh |
| “to the ends” | לִקְצוֹת | A termination | ends |
| “of the earth,” | הָאָ֣רֶץ | The earth (at large, or partitively a land) | earth |
| “and” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “seeth” | יִרְאֶֽה׃ | To see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative) | seeth |
| “under” | תַּ֖חַת | The bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc | under |
| “the whole” | כָּל | Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) | whole |
| “heaven;” | הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם | 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) | heaven |
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22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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