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Job 28:2

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Iron is taken from the dust, And copper is smelted from rock.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] melted [out of] the stone.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Iron, out of the ore, is taken, and, stone, poureth out copper;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Iron from the dust is taken, And [from] the firm stone brass.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Iron is taken out of the earth, and brasse is molten [out] of the stone.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is smelted out of the stone.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Iron 1270
{1270} Prime
בַּרְזֶל
barzel
{bar-zel'}
Perhaps from the root of H1269; iron (as cutting); by extension an iron implement.
is taken 3947
{3947} Prime
לָקַח
laqach
{law-kakh'}
A primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications).
z8714
<8714> Grammar
Stem - Hophal (See H8825)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 178
out of the earth, 6083
{6083} Prime
עָפָר
`aphar
{aw-fawr'}
From H6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence clay, earth, mud.
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
and brass 5154
{5154} Prime
נְחוּשָׁה
n@chuwshah
{nekh-oo-shaw'}
Feminine of H5153; copper.
[is] molten 6694
{6694} Prime
צוּק
tsuwq
{tsook}
A pirm. root (rather identical with H6693 through the idea of narrowness (of orifice)); to pour out, that is, (figuratively) smelt, utter.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
[out of] the stone. 68
{0068} Prime
אֶבֶן
'eben
{eh'-ben}
From the root of H1129 through the meaning, to build; a stone.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Job 28:2

_ _ brass — that is, copper; for brass is a mixed metal of copper and zinc, of modern invention. Iron is less easily discovered, and wrought, than copper; therefore copper was in common use long before iron. Copper-stone is called “cadmium” by Pliny [Natural History, 34:1; 36:21]. Iron is fitly said to be taken out of the “earth” (dust), for ore looks like mere earth.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 28:1-11.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
Iron:

Genesis 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah.
Numbers 31:22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Deuteronomy 8:9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
1 Chronicles 22:14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

earth:
or, dust
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Gn 4:22. Nu 31:22. Dt 8:9. 1Ch 22:14.

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