Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Genesis 1:20
Let the waters] render, 'let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures,' animalculæ, insects, fish, etc. Fowl that may fly] RV 'let fowl fly.'
Let the waters] render, 'let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures,' animalculæ, insects, fish, etc. Fowl that may fly] RV 'let fowl fly.'
Verse Genesis 1:20. _LET THE WATERS BRING FORTH ABUNDANTLY_] There is a meaning in these words which is seldom noticed. Innumerable millions of animalcula are found in water. Eminent naturalists have...
- VII. The Fifth Day 20. שׁרץ _shārats_, “crawl, teem, swarm, abound.” An intransitive verb, admitting, however, an objective noun of its own or a like signification. נפשׁ _nephesh_, “breath, soul,...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CREATION ACCOUNT The manner in which the book of Genesis begins leaves no doubt that it is the revelation of God. The creation account is historical truth. The questio...
On the fifth day were created the denizens of the water and the atmosphere; the creatures that move in swarms in the water, all winged creatures, including insects, and the sea monsters, especially, p...
LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh,_ as in verses: Genesis 1:21; Genesis 1:24; Genesis 1:30; Genesis 2:7;...
The Fifth Day. The Creation of Water Animals and Flying Animals 20. _Let the waters … life_ The rendering, "bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life," fails to give the full meaning o...
AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS, &C.— The formation of things inanimate being completed, the all-wise Creator proceeds, from the most noble of these, the _heavenly bodies,_ to those which are next in deg...
PART SEVEN: THE LAST THREE DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGS Genesis 1:20-31 The heart of the Genesis Cosmogony is that all things have been brought into existence by the Supreme Creative Will, a...
Day Five: the Water and Air Species (Genesis 1:20-23) And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God cre...
_AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS BRING FORTH ABUNDANTLY THE MOVING CREATURE THAT HATH LIFE, AND FOWL THAT MAY FLY ABOVE THE EARTH IN THE OPEN FIRMAMENT OF HEAVEN._ Let the waters bring forth abundantly...
1:20 in (a-20) Lit. 'on the face of.'...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ ABOUT GENESIS Many people think that Moses wrote Genesis. If he did, other people probably helped him. And if he did, he may have used some of the words o...
God created animals. Animals were a new kind of living thing. They were quite different from plants. Animals have minds. Minds were a new kind of thing. Some of the animals lived in the sea. Some larg...
EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM. Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3) the Deity is simply called _Elohim._ This word is strictly a plural of _Eloah,...
LET THE WATERS... IN THE OPEN FIRMAMENT. — The days of the second creative triad correspond to those of the first. Light was created on the first day, and on the fourth it was gathered into light-bear...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים יִשְׁרְצ֣וּ הַ מַּ֔יִם...
THE CREATION Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order in which plan...
MAN CREATION'S CROWN Genesis 1:20 Creation reveals God's nature, as the picture the artist. His eternal Power and Godhead are visible in His works. See Romans 1:20. And all things and beings were mad...
The opening sentence of the Book of Genesis is an interpretation of the fact "that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do appear" Hebrews 11:3), and accounts for the things which are s...
"GOD CREATED" It should be noted the writer of this account is not concerned with science. However, no proven fact of science contradicts any scripture. The expression "and God" is used 28 times in Ge...
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the (p) moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. (p) As fish and worms which slide,...
Creeping: destitute of feet like fishes, which move on their bellies. (Menochius) --- Fowl. Some assert that birds were formed of the earth, but they seem to have the same origin as fishes, namely, wa...
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over...
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...
20._Let the waters bring forth... the moving creature _(74) On the fifth day the birds and fishes are created. The blessing of God is added, that they may of themselves produce offspring. Here is a di...
Let us examine then the contents of this book in order. First, we have the creation creation in which man is found placed on earth as centre and head. We have first the WORK of God, and then the REST...
AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS BRING FORTH ABUNDANTLY,.... The waters gathered together in one place, the waters of the ocean, and those in rivers, pools and lakes, and which, before their collection in...
_The moving creature that hath life_ Endued with self-motion and animal life. How much soever we may be astonished at the stupendous vastness and magnificence of inanimate matter, the least piece that...
[THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.] 1 The creation of Heauen and Earth, 3 of the light, 6 of the firmament, 9 of the earth separated from the waters, 11 and made fruitfull, 14 of the Sunne, Moone, and...
The Creation of Marine Animals and Birds...
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. At God's almighty word the waters were to...
THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD AND OF THE PRIMITIVE TIME OF THE HUMAN RACE, AS THE GENESIS OF THE PRIMITIVE RELIGION UNTIL THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEATHENDOM, AND OF ITS ANTITHESIS IN THE GERMINATING PATRIARCHAL...
In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has given us this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply and decisively in the first statement of His own revelation to mank...
MOVING: Or, creeping LIFE: _ Heb._ soul OPEN FIRMAMENT OF HEAVEN: face of the firmament of heaven...
20-25 God commanded the fish and fowl to be produced. This command he himself executed. Insects, which are more numerous than the birds and beasts, and as curious, seem to have been part of this day's...
THE MOVING CREATURE, or, _creeping thing._ A word which belongs to all those living creatures who move with their bellies close to the element they move in. Hence it is used both of birds which fly in...
There is something peculiarly striking in the manner in which the Holy Ghost opens this sublime book. He introduces us, at once, to God, in the essential fullness of His Being, and the solitariness of...
Genesis 1:20 God H430 said H559 (H8799) waters H4325 abound H8317 (H8799) living H5315 H2416 creatures...
‘And God said, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and let birds fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heaven”. And God created the great sea mons...
Genesis 1 It is possible that God made at first only one kind of matter, the germ of all the universe. Indeed, Scripture seems to hint this in the sublime record of the origin of light: "And God said...
Genesis 1:1. _In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth._ When that «beginning» was, we cannot tell. It may have been long ages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, but i...
CONTENTS: Original creation and the renovating of earth for habitation of man. Creation of animal and human life. CHARACTERS: God, Genesis 1:1. Spirit, Genesis 1:2. Christ, Genesis 1:26 (See...
_Let the waters bring forth abundantly_ FISH AND FOWL I. THAT LIFE IS THE IMMEDIATE CREATION OF GOD. 1. Life was not an education. 2. It was not the result of combination. 3. It was a miraculous g...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:1 Primeval History. Genesis 1:1 surveys the history of the world before Abraham, while chs....
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:20 This section, on day 5, describes how the WATERS and the EXPANSE OF THE HEAVENS are filled with various kinds of creatures....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:20. Creature] Here, and in Genesis 1:21; Genesis 1:24, “creature” stands for Heb. _nephesh_ (Sept. _psychê_), and in...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:20 DAY FIVE. The waters and the air, separated on the second day, are on this filled with their respective inhabitants. AND GOD SAID. Nature never makes an onward movement, in t...
Now on the third day, God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering to...
Let the waters. Genesis 1:22 Genesis 2:19 Genesis 8:17 Psalms 104:24 Ps
CREATION SCENES Genesis 1:11; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12, we find the story of God's command to t
Each day hitherto hath produced very excellent beings, but we do not read of the creation of any living creature till the fifth day. The work of creation not only proceeded gradually from one thing to...