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Words
στερέωμα G4733
- Home gloss
- firmament
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- firmament; hammered sheet; dome
- Note
- "A thing made firm"; English "firmament" is the Latin calque of this word. Col 2:5 "the firmness of your faith" is the same noun. The Masoretic version's "hammered sheet" is רָקִיעַ
- Rulings
- 2, 52
Occurrences (9)
- 1:6 And God said, "Let a firmament come to be in the middle of the water, and let it be parting between water and water." And it came to be thus.
- 1:7 And God made the firmament, and God parted between the water that was under the firmament and between the water that was above the firmament.
- 1:7 And God made the firmament, and God parted between the water that was under the firmament and between the water that was above the firmament.
- 1:7 And God made the firmament, and God parted between the water that was under the firmament and between the water that was above the firmament.
- 1:8 And God called the firmament Sky. And God saw that it was beautiful. And evening came to be, and morning came to be: a second day.
- 1:14 And God said, "Let light-givers come to be in the firmament of the sky for shining on the land, and to rule the day and the night, and to part between the day and between the night; and let them be for signs and for kairoi and for days and for twelvemonths;
- 1:15 and let them be for shining in the firmament of the sky, so as to shine on the land." And it came to be thus.
- 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the sky, so as to shine on the land,
- 1:20 And God said, "Let the waters bring out creepers of living souls, and flyers flying over the land along the firmament of the sky." And it came to be thus.