Genesis 1:8
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What does Genesis 1:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."
What does Genesis 1:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."
- IV. The Second Day 6. רקיע _rāqı̂ya‛_, “expanse;” στερέωμα _stereōma_, רקע _rāqa‛_, “spread out by beating, as leaf gold.” This expanse was not understood to be solid, as the fowl is said to fl...
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...
When, on the second morning, light resumes the sway which had been interrupted by the night, God begins the task of evolving order out of chaos. First He makes a firmament, by which is meant a solid v...
HEAVEN. Hebrew high, lofty....
The Firmament of the Heaven 6. _Let there be … waters_ The work of the "second day" is the creation of the so-called "firmament" of heaven. The Hebrews had no conception of an infinite ethereal space...
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 A FIRMAMENT IN THE MIDST OF THE WATERS, AND LET IT DIVIDE THE WATERS FROM THE WATERS._ Let there be a firmament, х_ RAAQIYA`_ (H7549)] - expansion. Our version, following...
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 יִּקְרָ֧א אֱלֹהִ֛ים לָֽ † רָקִ֖יעַ שָׁמָ֑יִם וַֽ יְהִי ־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽ יְהִי ־בֹ֖קֶר יֹ֥ום...
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 called the firmament (g) Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. (g) That is, the region of the air, and all that is above us....
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...
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 CALLED THE FIRMAMENT HEAVEN,.... Including the starry and airy heavens: it has its name from its height in the Arabic language, it being above the earth, and reaching to the third heaven; thou...
_And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day._ Ver. 8. _And the evening, &c._] Here is no mention of God's approbation of this second day's work. Not for...
[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 the Firmament...
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...
6-13 The earth was emptiness, but by a word spoken, it became full of God's riches, and his they are still. Though the use of them is allowed to man, they are from God, and to his service and honour t...
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 1:8 God H430 called H7121 (H8799) firmament H7549 Heaven H8064 evening H6153 morning H1242 second H8145 day H3117 GOD - GENESIS 1:5, GENESIS 1:10, GENESIS 5:2 Heavens - 3's H30005 evening -...
‘And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. And God called the firmament Sky (or Heaven). And the...
FIRMAMENT That is, the expanse above, the "heaven" of the clouds. (Genesis 7:11); (Genesis 8:2)....
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 a firmament_ THE ATMOSPHERE I. THE ATMOSPHERE IS NECESSARY TO THE POSSIBILITY OF HUMAN LIFE. 1. Gathers up the vapours. 2. Throws them down again in rain, snow, or dew, when needed....
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 1:6. Firmament] Or: “expanse;” prop. “something beaten out.” “expanded.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 1:6_ THE ATMOSPHERE The word here translated “firmamen...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:6 _Day_ _two_._ _The work of this day consisted in the formation of that immense gaseous ocean, called the atmosphere, by which the earth is encircled. AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE...
Shall we now turn in our Bibles to Genesis chapter one, verse one? The word Genesis in Hebrew means "beginning." And so, it is "the book of the beginnings", and in Genesis we find the beginning of the...
God. Genesis 1:5 Genesis 1:10 Genesis 5:2 evening. Genesis 1:5 Genesis 1:13 Genesis 1:19 Genesis 1:23 Genesis 1:31...
IN THE BEGINNING GOD Genesis 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In these days of humanizing God, we need to give more time to the study of God's eternity. The Bible opens with the expression, "In the beginning...