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Genesis 8:7
A raven is a black bird that can live on mountains. It can eat dead animals. There were dead animals on the mountains. So the raven found enough food and it did not return to the *ark.
A raven is a black bird that can live on mountains. It can eat dead animals. There were dead animals on the mountains. So the raven found enough food and it did not return to the *ark.
Verse Genesis 8:7. _HE SENT FORTH A RAVEN, WHICH WENT FORTH TO AND FRO_] It is generally supposed that the raven _flew off_, and was seen no more, but this meaning the Hebrew text will not bear; ויצא...
- The Land Was Dried 1. שׁכך _shākak_ “stoop, assuage.” 3. חסר _chāsar_ “want, fail, be abated.” 4. אררט _'ărārāṭ_, “Ararat,” a land forming part of Armenia. It is mentioned in 2 Kings 19:37,
CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered _ 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1)_ 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6) 4. The sending forth of the dove ...
The mention of the rain (Genesis 8:2_ b_) comes from J, and since Genesis 8:3_ b_ with its dating belongs to P, Genesis 8:3_ a_ may be assigned to J. With Genesis
RAVEN: an unclean bird. Leviticus 11:15.Deuteronomy 14:14....
The Story of the Raven and the Dove. (J.) 6. _at the end of forty days_ The forty days mentioned in Genesis 7:4; Genesis 7:12. _the window_ LXX θυρίδα, Lat. _fenestram_. This was not mentioned by P in...
_a raven_ The Heb. and LXX give the definite article, "the raven," which some have explained as the only male raven in the ark. But the article is idiomatically generic; cf. Genesis 8:8, Gesenius, _He...
PART TWENTY-TWO: THE WORLD AFTER THE FLOOD (Genesis 8:1-22; Genesis 9:1-29) 1. _The Subsidence of the Flood_ (Genesis 8:1-14). And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle
_AND HE SENT FORTH A RAVEN, WHICH WENT FORTH TO AND FRO, UNTIL THE WATERS WERE DRIED UP FROM OFF THE EARTH._ Sent forth a raven - literally, the raven. The article has here the force of a certain, a...
וַ יְשַׁלַּ֖ח אֶת ־הָֽ עֹרֵ֑ב וַ יֵּצֵ֤א
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
NOAH LEAVES THE ARK Genesis 8:1 Traditions of the Flood are found in every country, from the tablets of Babylon to the rude carvings of the Aztecs, proving man's common origin. “God remembered Noah.”...
Upborne on the billows of judgment, the Ark rode securely, holding within it the nucleus of a new departure in human history. When the work of judgment was fully accomplished, the waters decreased, an...
A THANKSGIVING SACRIFICE The flood lasted one year and ten days (Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:14). Noah's first act on the renewed earth was to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving. It could be viewed as a sa...
Did not return. The negotiation Not, is not to be found in any Hebrew copy now extant; though it is still retained by the Septuagint, and several Latin manuscripts, according to the testimony of Liran...
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Opening the window of the ark, and sending forth the messengers of enquiry, serves to teach,...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, AND 8. Finally we find power and force here below, the result, of the sons of God not keeping their first estate, of apostasy; and God executes judgment...
AND HE SENT FORTH A RAVEN,.... That by it he might make his observation, how high or low the waters were upon the earth; and the rather he sent out the raven, a bird of prey, which feeds on carrion, t...
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Ver. 7. _And he sent forth a raven._] Which when it is made tame, though it delights in dead...
Gen. 8:7, 8, etc. _Concerning the raven and the dove, that Noah sent forth. _ The dove is an emblem of a gracious soul, which, finding no rest for its foot, no solid peace or satisfaction in this worl...
Noah _sent forth a raven_ Through the window of the ark; _which went forth_ As the Hebrew phrase is, _going forth and returning;_ that is, flying about, but returning to the ark for rest; probably not...
1 The waters asswage. 4 The Arke resteth on Ararat. 7 The rauen and the doue. 15 Noah, being commanded, 18 goeth forth of the Arke. 20 He buildeth an Altar, and offereth sacrifice, 21 which God...
and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Forty days after the summits of the highlands had become visible, Noah opened the window of th...
The Sending of the Raven and the Dove...
THIRD SECTION _The Ark, and the Saved and Renewed Humanity_ GENESIS 8:1-19 1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark; and God made a wind to p...
A RENEWED EARTH The five months of floating on a shoreless sea would seem interminable to Noah and his family, and it can be well imagined that they would feel that God had forgotten them. "But God re...
TO AND FRO: _ Heb._ in going forth and returning...
4-12 The ark rested upon a mountain, whither it was directed by the wise and gracious providence of God, that might rest the sooner. God has times and places of rest for his people after their tossin...
HE SENT FORTH A RAVEN; a fit messenger for that purpose, because it smells dead carcasses at a great distance, and flies far, and then returneth to its former habitation with something in its bill. TO...
Genesis 8:7 out H7971 (H8762) raven H6158 kept H3318 (H8800) going H3318 (H8799) fro H7725 ...
STAGES OF DELIVERANCE (GENESIS 8:4) Genesis 8:4 ‘On the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains (or hills) of Ararat, and the waters continued going...
RAVEN The raven and the dove have been thought to stand for the believer's two natures: the "old man" satisfied with a world under judgment; the "new man" finding satisfaction only in the things of t...
Genesis 8:1. _And God remembered Noah,_ Noah had been shut up in the ark for many a day, and at the right time God thought of him, practically thought of him, and came to visit him. Dear heart, you h...
CONTENTS: Waters receding, exit from the ark. Noah's altar. CHARACTERS: Noah and family. CONCLUSION: When judgment days are past, the believer will find himself safely landed in a better world. KEY...
Genesis 8:3. _The waters returned from off the earth continually._ The Hebrew, חלוךְ ושׁוב _cha-loveck ve-shou._ Montanus renders _eundo et redeundo,_ the going and coming of the waters. The word is u...
_Noah opened the window of the ark_ THE JUDICIOUS CONDUCT OF A GOOD MAN IN SEEKING TO ASCERTAIN THE FACTS OF LIFE AND HIS RELATION THERETO We observe: I. THAT NOAH DID NOT EXHIBIT AN IMPETUOUS HAST...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 8:6. Window.] Properly, “hole:” not the same word as in ch. Genesis 6:16.— GENESIS 8:7. RAVEN.] Probably so called from its blackness (Gesenius, Fürst): from its cry or croa...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 8:1 AND GOD. _Elohim, i.e. God in _his most universal relation to his creatures. The supposition of two different accounts or histories being intermingled in the narrative of the F...
The eighth chapter begins with the words, And God remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1), Let me tell you this, God never forgot him. It is important that we realize that in the Bible, there are terms that ar...
a raven. Leviticus 11:15 1 Kings 17:4 1 Kings 17:6 Job 38:41 Psalms 147:9
THE ASSUAGING OF THE WATERS Genesis 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. There is a striking verse in 2 Peter 3:6, which reads: "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the...
Noah sent forth a raven through the window of the ark, which went forth, as the Hebrew phrase is, going forth and returning, that is, flying about, but returning to the ark for rest; probably not in i...