What does Genesis 8:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the waters returned from off the earth continually:a and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated."
- The Land Was Dried 1. שׁכך _shākak_ “stoop, assuage.” 3. חסר _chāsar_ “want, fail, be abated.” 4. אררט _'ărārāṭ_, “Ararat,” a land forming part of Armenia. It is mentioned in 2 Kings 19:37,...
CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered _ 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1)_ 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6) 4. The sending forth of the dove (Genesis 8:8) 5. The waters...
The mention of the rain (Genesis 8:2_ b_) comes from J, and since Genesis 8:3_ b_ with its dating belongs to P, Genesis 8:3_ a_ may be assigned to J. With Genesis 8:6 we resume J's story; after the fo...
Genesis 8:1-14. The Diminution of the Waters 1 (P). _God remembered_ The same expression occurs in Genesis 19:29; Genesis 30:22. It is a form of anthropomorphism which is not infrequent in the O.T. a...
PART TWENTY-TWO: THE WORLD AFTER THE FLOOD (Genesis 8:1-22; Genesis 9:1-29) 1. _The Subsidence of the Flood_ (Genesis 8:1-14). _And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that w...
_AND THE WATERS RETURNED FROM OFF THE EARTH CONTINUALLY: AND AFTER THE END OF THE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DAYS THE WATERS WERE ABATED._ Returned ... continually - literally, going and returning. The clause...
8:3 retiring; (c-9) Lit. 'returned from the earth going and returning.'...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 8 THE FLOOD ENDS V1 But God remembered Noah. And God remembered all the animals that were with Noah in the *ark. And God made a wind blow over the...
THE WATERS RETURNED FROM OFF THE EARTH. — This backward motion of the waters also seems to indicate that a vast wave from the sea had swept over the land, in addition to the forty days of rain. WERE...
וַ יָּשֻׁ֧בוּ הַ מַּ֛יִם מֵ עַ֥ל הָ אָ֖רֶץ הָלֹ֣וךְ וָ שֹׁ֑וב וַ יַּחְסְר֣וּ הַ...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 9:1 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was the Flood. There is every reas...
NOAH LEAVES THE ARK Genesis 8:1 Traditions of the Flood are found in every country, from the tablets of Babylon to the rude carvings of the Aztecs, proving man's common origin. “God remembered Noah.”...
Upborne on the billows of judgment, the Ark rode securely, holding within it the nucleus of a new departure in human history. When the work of judgment was fully accomplished, the waters decreased, an...
A THANKSGIVING SACRIFICE The flood lasted one year and ten days (Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:14). Noah's first act on the renewed earth was to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving. It could be viewed as a s...
_And the waters returned, &c. St. Jerome on this passage remarks, "that all waters and torrents repair to the womb of the abyss, through the hidden veins of the earth," and by the abyss understands th...
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...
3._And after the end of the hundred and fifty days_. Some think that the whole time, from the beginning of the deluge to the abatement of the waters, is here noted; and thus they include the forty day...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, AND 8. Finally we find power and force here below, the result, of the sons of God not keeping their first estate, of apostasy; and God executes judgment...
AND THE WATERS RETURNED FROM OFF THE EARTH CONTINUALLY,.... Or "going and returning" s; they went off from the earth, and returned to their proper places appointed for them; some were dried up by the...
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. Ver. 3. _And the waters returned continually._] Or, hastily (Heb., הזלד...
_The waters returned from off the earth continually_ Hebrews they were _going and returning;_ a gradual departure. The heat of the sun exhaled much, and perhaps the subterraneous caverns soaked in mor...
1 The waters asswage. 4 The Arke resteth on Ararat. 7 The rauen and the doue. 15 Noah, being commanded, 18 goeth forth of the Arke. 20 He buildeth an Altar, and offereth sacrifice, 21 which God...
The Flood Subsides...
THIRD SECTION _The Ark, and the Saved and Renewed Humanity_ GENESIS 8:1-19 1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark; and God made a wind to p...
A RENEWED EARTH The five months of floating on a shoreless sea would seem interminable to Noah and his family, and it can be well imagined that they would feel that God had forgotten them. "But God r...
CONTINUALLY: _ Heb._ in going and returning...
1-3 The whole race of mankind, except Noah and his family, were now dead, so that God's remembering Noah, was the return of his mercy to mankind, of whom he would not make a full end. The demands of D...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Genesis 8:3 waters H4325 receded H7725 (H8799) continually H1980 (H8800) H7725 (H8800) earth H776 end H7097 hundred H3967 fifty H2572 days H3117 waters H4325 decreased H2637 (H8799) hundred - Genesis...
THE CREATOR REMEMBERS HIS CREATURES (GENESIS 8:1) Genesis 8:1 ‘And God (Elohim the Creator) remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, and God made a w...
Genesis 8:1. _And God remembered Noah,_ Noah had been shut up in the ark for many a day, and at the right time God thought of him, practically thought of him, and came to visit him. Dear heart, you h...
CONTENTS: Waters receding, exit from the ark. Noah's altar. CHARACTERS: Noah and family. CONCLUSION: When judgment days are past, the believer will find himself safely landed in a better world. KEY...
Genesis 8:3. _The waters returned from off the earth continually._ The Hebrew, חלוךְ ושׁוב _cha-loveck ve-shou._ Montanus renders _eundo et redeundo,_ the going and coming of the waters. The word is u...
_The waters assuaged_ THE GRADUAL CESSATION OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION I. THAT IT IS MARKED BY A RICH MANIFESTATION OF DIVINE MERCY TO THOSE WHO HAVE SURVIVED THE TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION. 1. God’s remembra...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 8:2 In v. Genesis 8:2 God reverses the process started in Genesis 7:11. The waters both rose and fell during the period of 150 DAYS (see note on 7:17–24). MOUNTAINS OF ARARAT i...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 8:4. Ararat] “A region nearly in the middle of Armenia, between the Araxes and the lakes Van and Urumia (2 Kings 19:37, Isaiah 37:38: [‘land of Armenia,’ _lit._ ‘of Ararat’],...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 8:1 AND GOD. _Elohim, i.e. God in _his most universal relation to his creatures. The supposition of two different accounts or histories being intermingled in the narrative of the F...
The eighth chapter begins with the words, And God remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1), Let me tell you this, God never forgot him. It is important that we realize that in the Bible, there are terms that a...
continually. Heb. in going and returning. hundred. Genesis 7:11 Genesis 7:24...
THE ASSUAGING OF THE WATERS Genesis 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. There is a striking verse in 2 Peter 3:6, which reads: "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the...
The waters returned from off the earth continually — Heb. they were going and returning; a gradual departure. The heat of the sun exhaled much, and perhaps the subterraneous caverns soaked in more....