沧
cāng
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How is 沧 read in the Chinese Bible?
沧 is read cāng in the Chinese Union Version. It occurs 8 times in 8 verses across 7 books, first in Job 28:14.
- Occurrences
- 8
- Verses
- 8
- Books
- 7
- First in
- Job 28:14
Words it forms in the Bible
- 沧cāng× 8(bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green
Meaning: azure, cold, vast (all as of the sea)
In the text
- Job 28:14
深渊说:不在我内; 沧海说:不在我中。
- Psalms 114:3
沧海看见就奔逃; 约旦河也倒流。
- Psalms 114:5
沧海啊,你为何奔逃? 约旦哪,你为何倒流?
- Proverbs 8:29
为沧海定出界限,使水不越过他的命令, 立定大地的根基。
- Isaiah 43:16
耶和华在沧海中开道, 在大水中开路,
- Jonah 1:9
他说:「我是希伯来人。我敬畏耶和华—那创造沧海旱地之天上的 神。」
- Haggai 2:6
万军之耶和华如此说:「过不多时,我必再一次震动天地、沧海,与旱地。
- Revelation 5:13
我又听见在天上、地上、地底下、沧海里,和天地间一切所有被造之物,都说: 但愿颂赞、尊贵、荣耀、权势 都归给坐宝座的和羔羊, 直到永永远远!
Reading checked against CC-CEDICT, for the character or the word it sits in.
Rare: outside the 3,500 level-1 characters of the 通用规范汉字表 (2013), China’s official list of common characters. For learners: common by that list, but in no HSK 3.0 word of levels 1–6.