Genesis 9:1
GOD. Hebrew. _'elohlm,_ the Creator, because in connection with creation (Genesis 9:2) and the earth. REPLENISH. fill, as in Genesis 6:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _'elohlm,_ the Creator, because in connection with creation (Genesis 9:2) and the earth. REPLENISH. fill, as in Genesis 6:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
FEAR... DREAD. Figure of speech _Synonymia_. BEAST. living thing, as in Genesis 3:1. EARTH. Hebrew. _'adhamah =_ the ground.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY... ALL. Figure of speech _Epanadiplosis_ (App-6), for emphasis. Same word in Hebrew.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See App-13. BLOOD. This is the essence and foundation of the doctrine of substitution and atonement. "life for life", "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23) and "without shedding of blood [and thus giving up the life] is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
OF. Genitive of Apposition (App-17). "blood, [that is] your lives. LIVES. souls. Plural of Hebrew. _nephesh._ HAND OF EVERY BEAST. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_ (App-6).... [ Continue Reading ]
IMAGE OF GOD. Hebrew image of _'elohim_ (App-4). See note on Genesis 1:26, and Genesis 3:7. See App-15 for the Laws before Sinai.... [ Continue Reading ]
I, BEHOLD, I. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis,_ for emphasis. COVENANT. Mentioned seven times in verses: Genesis 9:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
CREATURE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ So rendered in Genesis 1:21; Genesis 1:24; Genesis 2:19; Genesis 9:10; Genesis 9:12; Genesis 9:15; Genesis 9:16; Leviticus 11:46, &c. See App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOKEN, OR SIGN; then so associated with the bow.... [ Continue Reading ]
SET. Hebrew grant. Not then first seen as. phenomenon, but then first assigned as. token.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT. Hebrew. and [when]. See Genesis 9:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
REMEMBER. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERLASTING COVENANT. This expression occurs thirteen times in O.T. and once in N.T., making fourteen in all. Genesis 9:16; Genesis 17:13; Genesis 17:19. Lev 24:8. 2 Samuel 23:5; 1 Chronicles 16:17; Psalms 105:10; Isaiah 24:5; Isaiah 55:3;... [ Continue Reading ]
BEGAN TO BE. was. Hebrew idiom. Compare Luke 12:1.Matthew 26:37; Mark 10:41.Luke 3:23.Mark 11:15. HUSBANDMAN. Hebrew. _man of the ground,_ i.e. giving himself to tillage.... [ Continue Reading ]
WINE: first occurance. Hebrew. _yayin._ See App-27. [CONVERSION NOTE:SOME VERSIONS OF THE COMPANION BIBLE TEXT ON THE INTERNET HAVE THE FOLLOWING COMMENT FOR THIS VERSE BUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK (THAT. HAVE) DOES NOT. NEVERTHELESS THE COMMENT IS PRESENTED.] Compare Leviticus 18:8, which says: "The nak... [ Continue Reading ]
AWOKE. Septuagint _eknepho,_ only here 1 Samuel 25:37; Habakkuk 2:7; Habakkuk 2:19. and Joel 1:5. In N.T. only 1 Corinthians 15:34, means very much awake, awake to wisdom. YOUNGER. than Japheth, not Shem. See notes on Genesis 5:32; Genesis 10:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
CURSED. Fulfillment in Book of Joshua. servant of servants. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED. Fulfillment in Shem being in the line of the promised seed, and in the overthrow of Canaanites.... [ Continue Reading ]
ENLARGE JAPHETH. Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). _Yapht le-yephth._ Fulfillment in increase of Western nations. DWELL: as in. Tabernacle (Genesis 3:24, which see), i.e. worship the God of Shem: Israel's God, Hebrew. _shakan._ See App-40. Gentiles to be blessed in Shem. The Eunuch (Ham) Acts... [ Continue Reading ]