Job 38:16

“Have you entered as far as the springs of the sea, and in the recesses of the deep walked about?”

Job 38:16 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Job 38:16, word by word

Have you enteredבָאתָvata

enter

To go into a place.

Where else “vata” appears
the springsנִבְכֵיnivche

spring, source

A spring, a source (of the sea). It appears only once in the Bible (Job 38:16).

Where else “nivche” appears
of the seaיָםyam

sea

The sea, or a large lake.

Where else “yam” appears
and in the recessesחֵקֶרcheker

depths

The deepest part, like the bottom of the deep.

Where else “cheker” appears
of the deepתְּהוֹםtehom

the deep

The deep waters: the deep sea, the ocean, and the waters under the earth. In the Hebrew Bible it is not a place of punishment or the place of the dead.

Where else “tehom” appears
walked aboutהִתְהַלָּכְתָּhithalachta

roam

To move about with no fixed course, roaming a place.

Where else “hithalachta” appears

The context

15And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the raised arm is broken.

16 · This verse (above)

17Have the gates of death been revealed to you, and the gates of the shadow of death have you seen?

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