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Psalms 104:6

104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. Who: Heb. He hath founded the earth upon her bases
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

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You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

What does Psalms 104:6 mean?

Psalms 104:6 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include כָּסָה (kâçâh), תְּהוֹם (tᵉhôwm), לְבוּשׁ (lᵉbûwsh).

Hebrew interlinear

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Thou
coveredstכָּסָהkâçâh/kaw-saw'/H3680properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
it
with
the
deepתְּהוֹםtᵉhôwm/teh-home'/H8415an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
as
with
a
garment:לְבוּשׁlᵉbûwsh/leb-oosh'/H3830a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphemistically) a wife
the
watersמַיִםmayim/mah'-yim/H4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
stoodעָמַדʻâmad/aw-mad'/H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
above
the
mountains.הַרhar/har/H2022a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)

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Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 104:6.

Genesis 7:19

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Genesis 7:20

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Exodus 15:5

The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

Exodus 20:18

And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

Exodus 24:15

And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

Exodus 24:16

And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

Genesis 1:2

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 19:17

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

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What does Psalms 104:6 say?

Psalms 104:6 (King James Version) reads: "Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains."

Is Psalms 104:6 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 104:6 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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