What does Genesis 1:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the dayd from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"
Verse Genesis 1:14. _AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHTS, C_.] One principal office of these was to divide between day and night. When night is considered a state of comparative _darkness_, how can lig...
- VI. The Fourth Day 14. מאור _mā'ôr_, “a light, a luminary, a center of radiant light.” מועה _mô‛ēd_, “set time, season.” Words beginning with a formative מ _m_usually signify that in which th...
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 questi...
The second set of four works on the last three days corresponds to the set of four on the first three. Thus we have the creation of light and of the luminaries; the firmament separating the upper from...
LIGHTS. Hebrew. _m'aor_. lightholders or luminaries (Exodus 25:6; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 35:14, &c. Compare Genesis 1:3). SIGNS. Hebrew. _'oth =_ things to come (Jeremiah 10:2). SEASONS. Hebrew. _mo'ed...
_Let there be lights_ The word rendered "lights" (LXX φωστῆρες : Lat. _luminaria_) denotes a thing, or body, carrying light; cf. Psalms 74:16, "The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast pre...
AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHTS— The Almighty now proceeds to furnish the heaven, or expanse of air, after having furnished the earth; and so to complete his _inanimate_ creation. The light, by what...
PART SIX: THE FIRST FOUR DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGS Genesis 1:2-19 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The verb _bara,_ translated create, writes Skinner (ICC, 15) is u...
_AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHTS IN THE FIRMAMENT OF THE HEAVEN TO DIVIDE THE DAY FROM THE NIGHT; AND LET THEM BE FOR SIGNS, AND FOR SEASONS, AND FOR DAYS, AND YEARS:_ Let there be lights in the fi...
1:14 lights (d-7) Lit. 'light-bearers.'...
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...
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...
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,...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים יְהִ֤י מְאֹרֹת֙ בִּ רְקִ֣יעַ הַ שָּׁמַ֔יִם לְ הַבְדִּ֕יל בֵּ֥ין הַ יֹּ֖ום...
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...
SKY, EARTH, SEASONS Genesis 1:6 There were successive stages in creation. The days probably represent long periods. It is so with the new creation in our hearts. See 2 Corinthians 5:17. In nature the...
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 G...
And God said, Let there be (k) lights in the firmament of the heaven to (l) divide the day from the night; and let them be for (m) signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: (k) By the lights b...
For signs. Not to countenance the delusive observations of astrologers, but to give notice of rain, of the proper seasons for sowing, &c. (Menochius) --- If the sun was made on the first day, as some...
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...
_SUN AND MOON_ ‘And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.’ Genesis 1:14...
14._Let there be lights _(67) Moses passes onwards to the fourth day, on which the stars were made. God had before created the light, but he now institutes a new order in nature, that the sun should b...
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 THERE BE LIGHTS IN THE FIRMAMENT OF THE HEAVEN,.... In the upper part of it, commonly called the starry heaven: some writers, both Jewish and Christian, and even modern astronomers,...
_And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good._ Ver. 12. _And th...
_Let there be lights_, &c. God had said, Genesis 1:3, _Let there be light;_ but that was, as it were a chaos of light, scattered and confused: now it was called and formed into several luminaries, and...
[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...
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. The Creator brought into being ligh...
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...
THE DAY FROM THE NIGHT: _ Heb._ between the day and between the night...
14-19 In the fourth day's work, the creation of the sun, moon, and stars is accounted for. All these are the works of God. The stars are spoken of as they appear to our eyes, without telling their num...
LET THERE BE LIGHTS; to wit, more glorious lights than that created the first day, which probably was now condensed and reduced into these lights; which are higher for place, more illustrious for ligh...
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 1:14 God H430 said H559 (H8799) lights H3974 firmament H7549 heavens H8064 divide H914 (H8687) day H3117 night H3915 signs H226 seasons H4150 days H3117 years H8141 Let there - Deuteronomy 4:1...
‘And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons, for days and years, and let them be for lights in the...
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 Colossi...
_Let there be lights in the firmament_ THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES I. THESE LIGHTS ARE ALL GOD’S SERVANTS. II. THE MISTAKES MAN’S EYE MAKES IN JUDGING THE WORKS OF GOD. We “limit the Holy One of Israel...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:1 Primeval History. Genesis 1:1 surveys the history of the world before Abraham, while chs. Genesis 12:1 focus on one main family. There are no real parallels to chs. Genesis...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:14. Lights] “Luminaries:” Heb. _me’ôrôth_, sing, _mâʼôr_, not _’ôr_ as in Genesis 1:3: Sept. _phôstêr_ here, _phôs_ there. There was “light” before the fourth day _MAIN HO...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:14, GENESIS 1:15 _Day four_._ _With this day begins the second half of the creative week, whose works have a striking correspondence with the labors of the first. Having perfecte...
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 there. Deuteronomy 4:19 Job 25:3 Job 25:5 Job 38:12 Psalms 8:3 Psalms 8:4 Psalms 19:1 Psalms 74:16 Psalms 74:17 Psalms 104:19...
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Genesis 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have a very interesting study to set before you today. Most of us realize how vital a part the Holy Spirit plays in our own ex...
This is the history of the fourth day's work, the creating the sun, moon and stars. Of this we have an account, In general, verse Genesis 1:14, Genesis 1:15. where we have, The command given concernin...
How could there be light before the sun was made? PROBLEM: The sun was not created until the fourth day, yet there was light on the first day (Genesis 1:3). SOLUTION: The sun is not the only source...