Lexicon :: Strong's H6051 - ʿānān

As a cloud fades away and vanishes,

so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

He wraps up the water in his clouds,

yet the clouds do not burst beneath its weight.

He saturates clouds with moisture;

he scatters his lightning through them.

when I made the clouds its garment

and total darkness its blanket,[fn]

He led them with a cloud by day

and with a fiery light throughout the night.

Clouds and total darkness surround him;

righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud;

they kept his decrees and the statutes he gave them.

He spread a cloud as a covering

and gave a fire to light up the night.

Then the LORD will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory,[fn]

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,

and your sins like a mist.

Return to me,

for I have redeemed you.

Look, he advances like clouds;

his chariots are like a storm.

His horses are swifter than eagles.

Woe to us, for we are ruined!

“You have covered yourself with a cloud

so that no prayer can get through.

I looked, and there was a whirlwind coming from the north, a huge cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire, there was a gleam like amber.

Seventy elders from the house of Israel were standing before them, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a firepan in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising up.

Now the cherubim were standing to the south of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

For a day is near;

a day belonging to the LORD is near.

It will be a day of clouds,

a time of doom[fn] for the nations.

“ ‘When I snuff you out,

I will cover the heavens

and darken their stars.

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

and the moon will not give its light.

“As a shepherd looks for his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will look for my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and total darkness.

“You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?

What am I going to do with you, Judah?

Your love is like the morning mist

and like the early dew that vanishes.

Therefore, they will be like the morning mist,

like the early dew that vanishes,

like chaff blown from a threshing floor,

or like smoke from a window.

a day of darkness and gloom,

a day of clouds and total darkness,

like the dawn spreading over the mountains;

a great and strong people appears,

such as never existed in ages past

and never will again

in all the generations to come.

The LORD is slow to anger but great in power;

the LORD will never leave the guilty unpunished.

His path is in the whirlwind and storm,

and clouds are the dust beneath his feet.

That day is a day of wrath,

a day of trouble and distress,

a day of destruction and desolation,

a day of darkness and gloom,

a day of clouds and total darkness,