KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
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“So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.”
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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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| “So” | כֵּ֚ן | Properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles) | So |
| “it was” | יִֽהְיֶ֣ה | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | it was |
| “alway:” | תָמִ֔יד | Properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); elliptically the regular (daily) sacrifice | alway |
| “the cloud” | הֶֽעָנָ֖ן | A cloud (as covering the sky), i.e., the nimbus or thunder-cloud | cloud |
| “covered” | יְכַסֶּ֑נּוּ | Properly, to plump, i.e., fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy) | covered |
| “it and the appearance” | וּמַרְאֵה | A view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision | appearance |
| “by day,” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “of fire” | אֵ֖שׁ | Fire (literally or figuratively) | fire |
| “by night.” | לָֽיְלָה׃ | Properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity | night |
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14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
18 At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
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