שַׁחַקshachaq/shakh'-ak/
HebrewH783421 occurrences (KJV)
a powder (as beaten small); by analogy, a thin vapor; by extension, the firmament
KJV renders it: cloud, small dust, heaven, sky.
Where it appears
- Deut 33:26“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
- 2 Sam 22:12He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
- Job 35:5Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
- Job 36:28Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
- Job 37:18Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
- Job 37:21Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.
- Job 38:37Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
- Ps 18:11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- Ps 36:5Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Ps 57:10For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.
- Ps 68:34Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.
- Ps 77:17The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
- Ps 78:23Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
- Ps 89:6For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
- Ps 89:37It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.
- Ps 108:4For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Prov 3:20By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
- Prov 8:28when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
- Isa 40:15Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
- Isa 45:8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
- Jer 51:9“We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.