Genesis 1:8

1:8 God called the expanse “sky.” ¹  There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 14:19

14:19 He blessed Abram, saying,

“Blessed be Abram by ²  the Most High God,

Creator ³  of heaven and earth. ⁴ 

¹ tn Though the Hebrew word can mean “heaven,” it refers in this context to “the sky.”

² tn The preposition לְ (lamed) introduces the agent after the passive participle.

³ tn Some translate “possessor of heaven and earth” (cf. NASB). But cognate evidence from Ugaritic indicates that there were two homonymic roots ָקנָה (qanah), one meaning “to create” (as in Gen 4:1) and the other “to obtain, to acquire, to possess.” While “possessor” would fit here, “creator” is the more likely due to the collocation with “heaven and earth.”

⁴ tn The terms translated “heaven” and “earth” are both objective genitives after the participle in construct.