To whom I gave the wilderness for a home And the salt land for his dwelling place? (original) (raw)

KJV Lexicon

Whose house
bayith (bah'-yith)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

I have made
suwm (soom)
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)wholly, work.

the wilderness
`arabah (ar-aw-baw')
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea -- Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness.

and the barren
mlechah (mel-ay-khaw')
salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert -- barren land(-ness), salt (land).

land his dwellings
mishkan (mish-kawn')
a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)

Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible
To whom I gave the wilderness for a home And the salt land for his dwelling place?King James Bible
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.Holman Christian Standard Bible
I made the wilderness its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling. International Standard Version
to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?NET Bible
to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place? GOD'S WORD® Translation
I gave it the desert to live in and the salt flats as its dwelling place.King James 2000 Bible
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

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