Dict: easton - Cloud

easton:

Cloud @ The Hebrew so rendered means "a covering," because clouds cover the sky. The word is used as a symbol of the Divine presence, as indicating the splendour of that glory which it conceals kjv@Exodus:16:10 kjv@Exodus:33:9; kjv@Numbers:11:25 kjv@Numbers:12:5; kjv@Job:22:14; kjv@Psalms:18:11). A "cloud without rain" is a proverbial saying, denoting a man who does not keep his promise kjv@Proverbs:16:15; kjv@Isaiah:18:4 kjv@Isaiah:25:5; kjv@Jude:1:1:12). A cloud is the figure of that which is transitory kjv@Job:30:15; kjv@Hosea:6:4). A bright cloud is the symbolical seat of the Divine presence kjv@Exodus:29:42-43; kjvKings:8:10; kjv@2Chronicals:5:14; kjv@Ezekiel:43:4), and was called the Shechinah (q.v.). Jehovah came down upon Sinai in a cloud kjv@Exodus:19:9); and the cloud filled the court around the tabernacle in the wilderness so that Moses could not enter it kjv@Exodus:40:34-35). At the dedication of the temple also the cloud "filled the house of the Lord" (kjvKings:8:10). Thus in like manner when Christ comes the second time he is described as coming "in the clouds" kjv@Matthew:17:5 kjv@Matthew:24:30; kjv@Acts:1:9-11). False teachers are likened unto clouds carried about with a tempest ( kjv@2Peter:2:17). The infirmities of old age, which come one after another, are compared by Solomon to "clouds returning after the rain" kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:2). The blotting out of sins is like the sudden disappearance of threatening clouds from the sky kjv@Isaiah:44:22). Cloud, the pillar of, was the glory-cloud which indicated God's presence leading the ransomed people through the wilderness kjv@Exodus:13:22 kjv@Exodus:33:9-10). This pillar preceded the people as they marched, resting on the ark kjv@Exodus:13:21 kjv@Exodus:40:36). By night it became a pillar of fire kjv@Numbers:9:17-23).