Dict: smith - CLOUD

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CLOUD - C>@ - The shelter given, and refreshment of rain promised, by clouds give them their peculiar prominence in Oriental imagery. When a cloud appears rain is ordinarily apprehended, and thus the "cloud without rain" becomes a proverb for the man of promise without performance. kjv@Proverbs:16:15; kjv@Isaiah:18:4 kjv@Isaiah:25:5; kjv@Jude:1:1:12) comp. kjv@Proverbs:25:14 The cloud is a figure of transitoriness, kjv@Job:30:15; kjv@Hosea:6:4) and of whatever intercepts divine favor or human supplication. kjv@Lamentations:2:1 kjv@Lamentations:3:44) A bright cloud at times visited and rested on the mercy-seat. kjv@Exodus:29:42-43; kjv@Kings:8:10-11; kjv@2Chronicles:5:14; kjv@Ezekiel:43:4) and was by later writers named Shechinah.

CLOUD, PILLAR OF - C>@ - The pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night that God caused to pass before the camp of the children of Israel when in the wilderness. The cloud, which became a pillar when the host moved, seems to have rested at other times on the tabernacle, whence god is said to have "come down in the pillar." kjv@Numbers:12:5; kjv@Exodus:33:9-10) It preceded the host, apparently resting on the ark which led the way. kjv@Exodus:13:21 kjv@Exodus:40:36) etc.; Numb kjv@9:15-23; 10:34