Scofield's Bible Commentary
Genesis 1:21
every living creature
The second clause, "every living creature," as distinguished from fishes merely, is taken up again in (Genesis 1:24); showing that in the second creative act all animal life is included.
every living creature
The second clause, "every living creature," as distinguished from fishes merely, is taken up again in (Genesis 1:24); showing that in the second creative act all animal life is included.
Verse Genesis 1:21. _AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES_] התנינם הגדלים _hattanninim haggedolim_. Though this is generally understood by the different versions as signifying _whales_, yet the original must...
- 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...
WHALES. great sea-creatures. CREATURE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ Compare Genesis 1:20 and App-13....
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 created_ Observe the use of the word "create" (Heb. _bârâ_). It signalizes a new departure of the Divine work, when the principle of animal life (_nephesh_) is first communicated on earth, an...
CREATED GREAT WHALES— The word התנינם _hathaninim,_ which we render _great whales,_ signifies "any kind of large aquatic or amphibious animals;" under which, whales, crocodiles, and the like, may prop...
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 CREATED GREAT WHALES, AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT MOVETH, WHICH THE WATERS BROUGHT FORTH ABUNDANTLY, AFTER THEIR KIND, AND EVERY WINGED FOWL AFTER HIS KIND: AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD._...
1:21 monsters, (b-7) The word applies to rivers as well as to the sea, and is also used for crocodiles, serpents. see Exodus 7:9 ....
THE CREATION 'The foundation of foundations and pillar of all wisdom is to know that the First Being is, and that He giveth existence to everything that exists! 'Thus wrote Moses Maimonides, a Jewish...
GREAT WHALES] Heb. denotes rather creatures like serpents, crocodiles, etc....
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,...
GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES. — Whales, strictly speaking, are mammals, and belong to the creation of the sixth day. But _tannin,_ the word used here, means any _long_ creature, and is used of serpents in...
וַ יִּבְרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת ־הַ תַּנִּינִ֖ם הַ
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 created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the (q) waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] go...
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...
21._And God created _A question here arises out of the word _created_. For we have before contended, that because the world was created, it was made out of nothing; but now Moses says that things form...
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 CREATED GREAT WHALES,.... Which the Targums of Jonathan and Jarchi interpret of the Leviathan and its mate, concerning which the Jews have many fabulous things: large fishes are undoubtedly me...
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good....
_Great whales_ The Hebrew word here rendered _whales_ is sometimes put to signify great dragons of the wilderness; (see Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 14:6; Malachi 1:3;) but it undoubtedly here means some v...
[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 created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind. And God saw that it was good. No...
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...
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...
GOD CREATED, i.e. produced out of most unfit matter, as if a man should out of a stone make bread, which requires as great a power as that which is properly called creation. GREAT WHALES; those vast s...
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 1:21 God H430 created H1254 (H8799) great H1419 creatures H8577 living H2416 thing H5315 moves H7430 ...
‘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 1:20 This section, on day 5, describes how the WATERS and the EXPANSE OF THE HEAVENS are filled with various kinds of creatures....
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:21 The Hebrew term for GREAT SEA CREATURES can mean large serpents, dragons, or crocodiles, as well as whales or sharks. Some have suggested that this could also refer to ext...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:1 Primeval History. Genesis 1:1 surveys the history of the world before Abraham, while chs....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:26. Man] Heb. _’âdhâm_ (Adam). The reader of the Heb. can scarcely resist the impression that a close connection was meant to be seen between _’âdhâm_ “man,” and, _adhâmâh_...
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...
great. Genesis 6:20 Genesis 7:14 Genesis 8:19 Job 7:12 Job 26:5...
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