Job 41:15 {6}
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His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.

scales.

Jeremiah 9:23 Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

a close

Revelation 5:2,3,5 And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof? . . .

Context
God's Power Shown in Leviathan
14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. 15His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales pressing upon one another.16One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them:…
Cross References
Matthew 27:66
And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone and setting guards.

Job 41:14
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

Job 41:16
One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them:

Lexicon
[His] rows
אֲפִיקֵ֣י (’ă·p̄î·qê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 650: Containing, a tube, a bed, valley of a, stream, a strong thing, a hero

of scales are
מָֽגִנִּ֑ים (mā·ḡin·nîm)
Noun - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 4043: A shield, a protector, the scaly hide of the crocodile

[his] pride,
גַּ֭אֲוָה (ga·’ă·wāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1346: Arrogance, majesty, ornament

tightly
סָ֝ג֗וּר (sā·ḡūr)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5462: To shut up, to surrender

sealed together.
חוֹתָ֥ם (ḥō·w·ṯām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2368: A seal, signet ring


Additional Translations
His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

His'strong scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal.

His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone.

The rows of his shields are a pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal.

His strong scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

His scales are his pride, shut together as with a close seal.

Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

A pride -- strong ones of shields, Shut up -- a close seal.
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