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Nave Topical Bible
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Thompson Chain Reference
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
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Torrey Topical Textbook
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American Tract Society
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
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King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
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Lexicons
• ܥܢܳܢܳܐ
• νεφέλη
• νέφος
• חֲזִיז
• כַּף
• מַשְׂאוֹת , מַשְׂאֵת
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Cloud. The shelter given, and refreshment of rain promised, by clouds give them their peculiar prominence in Oriental imagery. When a cloud appears, rain is ordinarily apprehended, and thus, the "cloud without rain," becomes a proverb for the man of promise without performance. Proverbs 16:15; Isaiah 18:4; Isaiah 25:5; Judges 1:12. Compare Proverbs 25:14.

The cloud is a figure of transitoriness, Job 30:15; Hosea 6:4, and of whatever intercepts divine favor, or human supplication. Lamentations 2:1; Lamentations 3:44. A bright cloud, at times, visited and rested on the Mercy-Seat, Exodus 29:42-43; 1 Kings 8:10-11; 2 Chronicles 5:14; Ezekiel 43:4, and was, by later writers, named Shechinah.