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19 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1897–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Psalms 18:15Easton · ISBE
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
- Genesis 7:11ISBE
¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 8:2ISBE
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- Genesis 41:5ISBE
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
- Judges 12:6ISBE
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
- Ruth 2:2ISBE
And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
- 2 Samuel 22:16ISBE
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
- Job 6:15ISBE
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
- Job 12:21ISBE
He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
- Job 31:22Easton
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
- Job 40:18ISBE
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
- Job 41:15ISBE
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
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- Psalms 69:2 ISBE
- Psalms 69:15 ISBE
- Psalms 126:4 ISBE
- Proverbs 8:28 ISBE
- Isaiah 8:7 Easton
- Isaiah 17:5 ISBE
- Isaiah 27:12 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 18 references
chan'-el ('aphiq (root 'aphaq, "to hold or contain," "to be strong"; compare Arabic 'afaq "to overcome" and 'afiq, "preeminent"); shibboleth (shabhal, "to go," "to go up or grow," "to flow"; compare Arabic 'asbal, "to flow," "to rain," "to put forth ears"; sabalat, "an ear of grain"; sabil, "a road," "a public fountain")): In Job 12:21; 40:18; 41:15 we have 'aphiq in the sense of "strong" (but compare 40:18, the Revised Version (British and American) "tubes" (of brass)). Elsewhere it is translated "river," "brook," "stream," "channel" or "watercourse." Shibboleth (in the dialect of Ephraim cibboleth (Jud 12:6)) means "an ear of grain" (Ge 41:5 ff; Ru 2:2; Isa 17:5) or "a flood of water" (Ps 69:2,15; Isa 27:12). In 2Sa 22:16 (compare Ps 18:15) we have: "Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils." This is reminiscent of "fountains of the deep" (Ge 7:11; 8:2; Pr 8:28). It is a question how far we should attribute to these ancient writers a share in modern notions of oceanography, but the idea seems to be that of a withdrawal of the water of the ocean, and the laying bare of submarine declivities and channels such as we know to exist as the result of erosion during a previous period of elevation, when the given portion of ocean floor was dry land.
The fact that many streams of Palestine flow only during the rainy season seems to be referred to in Job 6:15; and perhaps also in Ps 126:4.
Alfred Ely Day
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); 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.