Bible Verse Dictionary
Proverbs 8:27 - Compass
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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When he prepared | H3559 | כּוּן |
[Verb] properly to be erect (that {is} stand perpendicular); . hence (causatively) to set {up} in a great variety of {applications} whether literal ({establish } fix: {prepare} {apply }) or figurative ({appoint } render {sure} proper or prosperous) |
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) |
I | H589 | אֲנִי |
I |
was there | H8033 | שָׁם |
[Adverb] there (transfered to time) then; often {thither} or thence |
when he set | H2710 | חָקַק |
[Verb] properly to {hack} that {is} engrave ( |
a compass | H2329 | חוּג |
[Noun Masculine] a circle |
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 face | H6440 | פָּנִים |
[Noun Masculine] from 6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ({before } etc.) |
of the depth | H8415 | תְּהוֹם |
[Noun] an abyss (as a surging mass of {water}) especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water supply) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.