Job (Wisdom Literature, Old Testament) · Wisdom poetry
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God stretches out the north (tsafon) over empty space (tohu) and hangs (talah) the earth on nothing (belimah — 'not-a-thing').
belimah is a hapax legomenon meaning 'nothingness'. Whether Job intends the surrounding cosmos or a literal void is interpretation.
The earth hangs unsupported in a way still compatible with a fixed, founded plane — 'nothing' being the primordial void or the abyss beneath.
Anticipates the modern picture of a planet suspended in space with no visible support.
Nothingness; nothing at all. Occurs only in Job 26:7.
Brown–Driver–Briggs (BibleHub reprint)Earth; land; the ground or a defined territory.
Brown–Driver–Briggs (BibleHub reprint)Scripture text: World English Bible (public domain) — Heavens Declare verified corpus. Every verse on this page is rendered from the verified corpus already ingested into Heavens Declare — not from the discovery article.
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