Bible Verse Dictionary
Isaiah 40:22 - Curtain
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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It is he that sitteth | H3427 | יָשַׁב |
[Verb] properly to sit down (specifically as {judge} in {ambush} in quiet); by implication to {dwell} to remain; causatively to {settle} to marry |
upon | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
the circle | H2329 | חוּג |
[Noun Masculine] a circle |
of the earth | H776 | אֶרֶץ |
[Noun Feminine] the earth (at {large} or partitively a land) |
and the inhabitants | H3427 | יָשַׁב |
[Verb] properly to sit down (specifically as {judge} in {ambush} in quiet); by implication to {dwell} to remain; causatively to {settle} to marry |
thereof are as grasshoppers | H2284 | חָגָב |
[Noun Masculine] a locust |
that stretcheth out | H5186 | נָטָה |
[Verb] to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of applications |
the heavens | H8064 | שָׁמַיִם |
[Noun Masculine] from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds {move} as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) |
as a curtain | H1852 | דֹּק |
[Noun Masculine] something {crumbling} that {is} fine (as a thin cloth) |
and spreadeth them out | H5186 | נָטָה |
[Verb] to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of applications |
as a tent | H168 | אֹהֶל |
[Noun Masculine] a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance) |
to dwell in | H3427 | יָשַׁב |
[Verb] properly to sit down (specifically as {judge} in {ambush} in quiet); by implication to {dwell} to remain; causatively to {settle} to marry |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.