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Job 28:2

Hebrew
ESV
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.
NIV
Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
NLT
They know where to dig iron from the earth and how to smelt copper from rock.
LXX
σίδηρος μὲν γὰρ ἐκ γῆςplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigγῆ

Meaning:

* Soil or ground (e.g. Matthew 13:5) * Land (e.g. Luke 4:5) * Country * Earth (e.g. Matthew 5:5)

Feminine noun. Connected to the English words “ground”, “geometry” and “geology”.

It occurs throughout the LXX and the New Testament (approximately 250 times in the New Testament) and its meaning varies subtly on context, for example, in the LXX:Genesis 1:1Genesis 2:7Genesis 12:1
γίνεται χαλκὸς δὲplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigδέ

greek

δέ is a conjunction that can mean “but” or “and” or “also” or “moreover”. It is a word that is used very frequently in the New Testament, and is often unexpressed and not translated in English.
ἴσα λίθῳ λατομεῖται
KJV
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

Job 28:1 ← Job 28:2 → Job 28:3

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