the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #7834 - שַׁחַק
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- dust, cloud
- fine dust
- (thin) cloud
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2828) qhs (סהההק ShHhQ) AC: Beat CO: Powder AB: ?: A repetitive beating or pounding to pulverize or to make small such as the tumbling of stones in a river. [from: hs- destruction by striking]
V) qhs (סהההק ShHhQ) - Beat: To continually beat something to make it small or turn to powder. KJV (4): (vf: Paal) beat, wear - Strongs: H7833 (שָׁחַק)
Nm) qhs (סהההק ShHhQ) - Powder: A pulverized powder. Also the clouds as a fine powder. KJV (21): cloud, sky, dust, cloud - Strongs: H7834 (שַׁחַק)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 fine dust, מאֹזְנַיִם׳שׁ Isaiah 40:15 (simile of insignificance).
2 (thin) cloud, usually plural (often "" שָׁמַיִם), Deuteronomy 33:26 (poem), Isaiah 45:8; Jeremiah 51:9; Job 35:5; Job 36:28; Job 37:21; Job 38:37; Psalm 36:6; Psalm 57:11; Psalm 68:35; Psalm 77:18; Psalm 78:23; Psalm 108:5; opposed to תְּהוֺם Proverbs 3:20; Proverbs 8:28; ׳עָבֵי שׁ 2 Samuel 22:12 = Psalm 18:12; = heavens, sky Job 37:18 (with חִרְקִיעַ), and (singular) Psalm 89:7; Psalm 89:38.
שִׁחֹר see שִׁיחוֺר.
שַׁחַק m.
(1) dust; so called as being made small, Isaiah 40:15.
(2) a cloud (Arab. سَاحْقُ a thin cloud; prop. apparently a cloud of dust, as something similar). Plur. clouds, Job 38:37 to which are ascribed showers, Job 36:28; Psalms 78:23; Proverbs 3:20 thunder (Psalms 77:18). Meton. used of the firmament of heaven, i.q. שָׁמַיִם and רָקִיעַ. Job 37:18, “hast thou, like him (God), spread out the sky (שְׁחָקִים) which is firm like a molten mirror?” Proverbs 8:28; Job 37:21; Deuteronomy 33:26; Job 35:5; Psalms 68:35 (where, in the other hemistich, there is שָׁמַיִם). So also the sing., Psalms 89:7, 38 Psalms 89:38. (Sam. שׁחקיה for שָׁמַיִם Genesis 7:19.)
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