They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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מַחֲסֶה
H4268 · machăçeh · makh-as-eh' · Hebrew
Strong’s definition
a shelter (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage
hope, (place of) refuge, shelter, trust.
KJV renderings in this mapping
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Mapped occurrences
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
<<To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.>> God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.