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to satisfyלְהַשְׂבִּיעַthe desolationשֹׁאָהand ruin,וּמְשֹׁאָהand to make sproutוּלְהַצְמִיחַthe shootsמֹצָאof grass?דֶשֶׁא
Job 38:27
Study it in the app“to satisfy the desolation and ruin, and to make sprout the shoots of grass?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 38:27, word by word
- to satisfyהַשְׂבִּיעַhasbia
satisfy
To give another all they need: YHWH gives good in plenty.
Where else “hasbia” appears- the desolationשֹׁאָהshoa
ruin
A sudden disaster.
Where else “shoa” appears- and ruinמְשֹׁאָהmeshoa
ruin, devastation
Ruin, a devastated place.
Where else “meshoa” appears- and to make sproutהַצְמִיחַhatsmiach
sprout
Sprout, spring up; begin to grow.
Where else “hatsmiach” appears- the shootsמֹצָאmotsa
source
The place something comes from, like water welling up.
Where else “motsa” appears- of grassדֶשֶׁאdeshe
vegetation
Tender vegetation that sprouts: new grass, green growth.
Where else “deshe” appears
The context
26to bring rain on a land without man, a wilderness in which there is no human being,
27 · This verse (above)
28Does the rain have a father? Or who has fathered the drops of dew?