Psalms 29:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The voice of Jehovah cleaveth the flames of fire.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 77:18 : 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.
Ps 144:5-6 : 5 Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Exod 9:23 : 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Lev 10:2 : 2 And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah.
Num 16:35 : 35 And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
2 Kgs 1:10-12 : 10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. 11 And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty and his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly. 12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
Job 37:3 : 3 He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Job 38:35 : 35 Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 29:8-9
2 verses
82%
8The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness; Jehovah shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
9The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, And strippeth the forests bare: And in his temple everything saith, Glory.
Ps 29:3-6
4 verses
81%
3The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: The God of glory thundereth, Even Jehovah upon many waters.
4The voice of Jehovah is powerful; The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.
5The voice of Jehovah breaketh the cedars; Yea, Jehovah breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
6He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
Isa 30:30
77%
30And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
2 Sam 22:13-16
4 verses
76%
13At the brightness before him Coals of fire were kindled.
14Jehovah thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered his voice.
15And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; Lightning, and discomfited them.
16Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
Heb 12:29
76%
29for our God is a consuming fire.
Ps 83:14
76%
14As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,
Ps 148:8
75%
8Fire and hail, snow and vapor; Stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
Isa 30:27
74%
27Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;
Joel 1:19
74%
19O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
Isa 29:6
74%
6She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
Ps 97:3-5
3 verses
74%
3A fire goeth before him, And burneth up his adversaries round about.
4His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled.
5The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Ps 77:18
74%
18The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.
Nah 1:5-6
2 verses
74%
5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
Ps 18:12-13
2 verses
74%
12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
13Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
2 Sam 22:9
74%
9There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
Amos 7:4
73%
4Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
1 Kgs 18:38
73%
38Then the fire of Jehovah fell, and consumed the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Isa 66:15
73%
15For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Ps 18:8
72%
8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
Job 37:2
72%
2Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, And the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
Job 41:21
72%
21His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.
Isa 64:2
72%
2as when fire kindleth the brushwood, [and] the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Deut 4:36
72%
36Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Mic 1:4
72%
4And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
1 Kgs 19:12
72%
12and after the earthquake a fire; but Jehovah was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Job 37:4
71%
4After it a voice roareth; He thundereth with the voice of his majesty; And he restraineth not [the lightnings] when his voice is heard.
Isa 9:18
71%
18For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Ps 50:3
71%
3Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
Ps 147:18
71%
18He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: He causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Ezek 20:47-48
2 verses
71%
47and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.
48And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
Heb 1:7
71%
7And of {G3303} the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels winds, And his ministers a flame of fire:
Jer 23:29
71%
29Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Ps 144:6
71%
6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Ezek 15:7
71%
7And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I set my face against them.
Exod 15:7
71%
7And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
Ps 105:32
71%
32He gave them hail for rain, [And] flaming fire in their land.
Ps 104:32
70%
32Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
Num 11:3
70%
3And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them.