שַׁ֫חַק

Deuteronomy 33:26 שְׁחָקִֽים׃ clouds

“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

Here: From a verb meaning "to grind fine". It is the high, thin cloud layer, the skies, and it pairs with "heavens" in the line before. The verb "rides" carries over: he rides the heavens, and he rides the skies.

2 Samuel 22:12 שְׁחָקִֽים׃ clouds

He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.

Job 35:5 שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים [the] clouds

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

Job 36:28 שְׁחָקִ֑ים [the] clouds

which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

Job 37:18 לִשְׁחָקִ֑ים <to> clouds

can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?

Job 37:21 בַּשְּׁחָקִ֑ים in the clouds

Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

Job 38:37 שְׁחָקִ֣ים [the] clouds

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Psalm 18:11 שְׁחָקִֽים׃ clouds

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

Psalm 36:5 שְׁחָקִֽים׃ [the] clouds

Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

Here: A poetic word for the high skies or thin clouds, from a root meaning 'to grind fine' (the singular can mean fine dust). It is the usual poetic partner of 'heavens' and marks the uttermost height.

Psalm 57:10 שְׁחָקִ֥ים [the] clouds

For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.

Here: A poetic word for the high skies or thin clouds. It matches 'heavens' in the line before and repeats the idea of height.

Psalm 68:34 בַּשְּׁחָקִֽים׃ [is] in the clouds

Ascribe the power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose strength is in the skies.

Psalm 77:17 שְׁחָקִ֑ים clouds

The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

Psalm 78:23 שְׁחָקִ֣ים clouds

Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

Psalm 89:6 בַ֭שַּׁחַק in the cloud[s]

For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

Here: 'In the sky', meaning the upper heavens where the divine beings were pictured as living. It is the same word used in verse 37 for the moon, the 'faithful witness in the skies'.

Psalm 89:37 בַּ֝שַּׁ֗חַק in the cloud[s]

like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah

Psalm 108:4 שְׁחָקִ֥ים [the] clouds

For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Here: The thin clouds or upper sky. It is the usual partner word for 'heavens' in Hebrew poetry, the farthest height a person can see.

Proverbs 3:20 וּ֝שְׁחָקִ֗ים and clouds

By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.

Proverbs 8:28 שְׁחָקִ֣ים [the] clouds

when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,

Isaiah 40:15 וּכְשַׁ֥חַק and like [the] dust of

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

Here: 'And like the fine dust of'. The root means 'grind to powder'. In the plural the word means the thin clouds or the sky. Here it is the faint film of dust lying on a scale-pan, too light to move the balance.

Isaiah 45:8 וּשְׁחָקִ֖ים and clouds

Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

Here: 'And the clouds/skies.' The word comes from a root meaning to grind fine, so it suggests fine haze or high thin cloud. It stands parallel to 'heavens', as it does in Proverbs 3:20 and Job 36:28.

Jeremiah 51:9 שְׁחָקִֽים׃ [the] clouds

“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

Here: A poetic word for the high clouds or the thin vault of sky, probably from a root meaning 'to grind fine', like fine dust. It pairs with 'heavens' to make the height complete.