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when he made firmבְּאַמְּצוֹthe cloudsשְׁחָקִיםabove,מִמָּעַלwhenבַּthe fountainsעִינוֹתof the deepתְּהוֹםgrew strong,עֲזוֹז
Proverbs 8:28
Study it in the app“when he made firm the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 8:28, word by word
- when he made firmאַמְּצamts
be bold
To be bold and steady: "take heart and be brave".
Where else “amts” appears- the cloudsשְׁחָקִיםshechakim
cloud
What floats in the sky and brings rain.
Where else “shechakim” appears- aboveמָּעַלmaal
above
Upward, above; with ages, "twenty years old or more".
Where else “maal” appears- the fountainsעִינוֹתinot
spring
Literally "eye": a place where water wells up from the ground.
Where else “inot” 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- grew strongעֲזוֹזazoz
prevail
To have more strength than another and come out ahead.
Where else “azoz” appears
The context
27When he established the heavens, there was I; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
28 · This verse (above)
29when he set for the sea its statute, so that the waters would not pass beyond his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,