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Doesהֲthe rainלַמָּטָרhaveיֵשׁa father?אָבOrאוֹwhoמִיhas fatheredהוֹלִידthe dropsאֶגְלֵיof dew?טָל
Job 38:28
Study it in the app“Does the rain have a father? Or who has fathered the drops of dew?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 38:28, word by word
- the rainמָּטָרmatar
rain
Rain.
Where else “matar” appears- a fatherאָבav
father
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “av” appears- has fatheredהוֹלִידholid
father
For a man to have a child.
Where else “holid” appears- the dropsאֶגְלֵיegle
drops
Drops (of dew); what gathers of water. It appears only once in the Bible (Job 38:28).
Where else “egle” appears- of dewטָלtal
dew
Dew: the moisture of the night, which in a dry land keeps the plants alive.
Where else “tal” appears
The context
27to satisfy the desolation and ruin, and to make sprout the shoots of grass?
28 · This verse (above)
29From the womb of whom has the ice come out? And the frost of the heavens, who has given it birth?