Shachaq שַׁ֫חַק

Shachaq (Hebrew שַׁ֫חַק, Strong's H7834) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “cloud”. It occurs 21 times in 21 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Shachaq, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 33:26
  There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 22:12
  And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.

Job

• Job 35:5
  Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
• Job 36:28
  Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
• Job 37:18
  Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
• Job 37:21
  And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
• Job 38:37
  Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Psalms

• Psalm 18:11
  He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
• Psalm 36:5
  Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
• Psalm 57:10
  For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
• Psalm 68:34
  Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.Ascribe the power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose strength is in the skies.
• Psalm 77:17
  The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
• Psalm 78:23
  Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
• Psalm 89:6
  For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?
• Psalm 89:37
  It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
• Psalm 108:4
  For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 3:20
  By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
• Proverbs 8:28
  When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,

Isaiah

• Isaiah 40:15
  Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
• Isaiah 45:8
  Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 51:9
  We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).