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8 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 36:30ISBE
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
- Song of Songs 3:10ISBE
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 43:13ISBE
¶ And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the…
- Ezekiel 43:14ISBE
And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
- Ezekiel 43:17ISBE
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
- Amos 9:3ISBE
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
- Jonah 2:6ISBE
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
- Zechariah 1:8ISBE
I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 8 references
bot'-um: Rendered by several Hebrew words:
(1) sheresh, "root"; Chaldaic, shoresh (Job 36:30, "the bottom of the sea").
(2) qarqa', "soil," "pavement of tesserae" (Am 9:3).
(3) qetsebh, "cutting," "chop," "extremity" (Jon 2:6, "the bottoms of the mountains").
(4) rephidhah, "railing," "couch" (So 3:10, "the bottom thereof of gold").
(5) cheq, "bosom," "lap" (Eze 43:13,14,17, the Revised Version, margin "hollow").
(6) metsullah, "to be dark," "shadowy place," from primitive root tsalal, "to tumble down," i.e. "settle"; hence, the idea of a valley ("the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom," Zec 1:8 the Revised Version, margin "shady place"). The prophet may have been wont to frequent the myrtle grove in the glen or bottoms, in the neighborhood of Jerusalem, for meditation and prayer (BTP, II, 283).
M. O. Evans
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.