Topic
Cleft; Cliff; Clift
5 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.
- Exodus 33:22ISBE
And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
- 2 Chronicles 20:16ISBE
To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
- Job 30:6ISBE
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
- Isaiah 2:21ISBE
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
- Isaiah 57:5ISBE
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
kleft, klif, klift: The first of these words, from cleave, "to split," is a crevice or narrow opening, as "of the ragged rocks" (Isa 2:21); "under the clefts of the rocks" (Isa 57:5). "Clift" is an obsolete form of cleft, found in the King James Version Ex 33:22; Isa 57:5, but not in the Revised Version (British and American). "Cliff," an abrupt, precipitous, towering rock, is not in the Revised Version (British and American), but is found in the King James Version 2Ch 20:16, the Revised Version (British and American) "ascent," Job 30:6.
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.