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Ayub 38:29

Dari dalam kandungan siapakah keluar air beku, dan embun beku di langit, siapakah yang melahirkannya?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   God;   Ice;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Water;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abortion;   God;   Heaven, Heavens, Heavenlies;   Mystery;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Frost;   Ice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birth;   Heaven;   Hoarfrost, Hoar Frost;   Ice;   Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Knowledge;   Nature;   World;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ice;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Crystal;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Color;   Frost;   Gender;   Ice;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dari dalam kandungan siapakah keluar air beku, dan embun beku di langit, siapakah yang melahirkannya?
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dari pada siapa punya rahim keluarlah air beku, dan siapa gerangan memperanakkan ariz yang dari langit?

Contextual Overview

25 Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder, 26 To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth? 27 To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth. 28 Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe? 29 Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre? 30 That the waters are hidde as [with] a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe. 31 Wylt thou hinder the sweete influences of the seuen starres? or loose the bandes of Orion? 32 Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arctutus with his sonnes? 33 Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth? 34 Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 38:8, Job 6:16, Job 37:10, Psalms 147:16, Psalms 147:17

Reciprocal: Psalms 90:2 - Before

Cross-References

Genesis 46:12
The children of Iuda: Er, & Onan, Selah, & Phares, and Zarah: but Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Chanaan. The children of Phares also were Hesron and Hamul.
Numbers 26:20
But the chyldren of Iuda after their kinredes, were Sela, of whom cometh the kinred of the Selanites: Phares, of whom commeth the kinred of the Pharezites: Zareh, of whom cometh the kinred of the Zarehites.
Ruth 4:12
Thy house be like the house of Pharez (whom Thamar bare vnto Iuda) eue of the seede whiche the Lord shall geue thee of this young woman.
1 Chronicles 2:4
And Thamar his daughter in lawe bare him Pharez, and Zara: and so all the sonnes of Iuda were fiue.
1 Chronicles 9:4
Uthai the sonne of Amihud, the sonne of Omri, the sonne of Imri, the sonne of Beni, of the children of Pharez the sonne of Iuda.
Nehemiah 11:4
And at Hierusalem dwelt certayne of the children of Iuda, and of Beniamin: Of the children of Iuda, Athaiah, the sonne of Uzzia, the sonne of Zacharia, the sonne of Amaria, the sonne of Saphatia, the sonne of Mahalaleel, of the children of Phares.
Nehemiah 11:6
All these were the children of Phares that dwelt at Hierusalem, euen foure hundred three score and eyght valiaunt men.
Matthew 1:3
Iudas begat Phares, and Zara of Thamar, Phares begat Esrom, Esrom begat Aram.
Luke 3:33
Whiche was the sonne of Aminadab, whiche was the sonne of Aram, whiche was the sonne of Esron, whiche was the sonne of Phares, whiche was the sonne of Iuda:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Out of whose womb came the ice?.... The parent of the rain and dew is the parent of the ice also, and he only; it is therefore called "his ice", his child, his offspring, Psalms 147:17. Here the Lord is represented as a mother, and so he is by Orpheus b called "metropator", or "mother-father";

and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? this is of God, and by his breath; see Job 37:10.

b Apud Clement. Stromat. l. 5. p. 608.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Out of whose womb came the ice? - That is, who has caused or produced it? The idea is, that it was not by any human agency, or in any known way by which living beings were propagated.

And the hoary frost of heaven - Which seems to fall from heaven. The sense is, that it is caused wholly by God; see the notes at Job 37:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 38:29. Out of whose womb came the ice? — ICE is a solid, transparent, and brittle body, formed of water by means of cold. Some philosophers suppose that ice is only the re-establishment of water in its natural state; that the mere absence of fire is sufficient to account for this re-establishment; and that the fluidity of water is a real fusion, like that of metals exposed to the action of fire; and differing only in this, that a greater portion of fire is necessary to one than the other. Ice, therefore, is supposed to be the natural state of water; so that in its natural state water is solid, and becomes fluid only by the action of fire, as solid metallic bodies are brought into a state of fusion by the same means.

Ice is lighter than water, its specific gravity being to that of water as eight to nine. This rarefaction of ice is supposed to be owing to the air-bubbles produced in water by freezing, and which, being considerably larger in proportion to the water frozen, render the body so much specifically lighter; hence ice always floats on water. The air-bubbles, during their production, acquire a great expansive power, so as to burst the containing vessels, be they ever so strong. See examples in Clarke's note on "Job 37:10".

The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?Hoar-frost is the congelation of dew, in frosty mornings, on the grass. It consists of an assemblage of little crystals of ice, which are of various figures, according to the different disposition of the vapours when met and condensed by the cold. Its production is owing to some laws with which we are not yet acquainted. Of this subject, after the lapse and experience of between two and three thousand years, we know about as much as Job did. And the question, What hath engendered the hoar-frost of heaven! is, to this hour, nearly as inexplicable to us as it was to him! Is it enough to say that hoar-frost is water deposited from the atmosphere at a low temperature, so as to produce congelation?


 
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