Genesis 1:1-31
beginning <07225> [beginning.]
God <0430> [God.]
without shape <08414> [without.]
Spirit <07307> [Spirit.]
God <0430> [God.]
be .... there <01961> [Let.]
that <03588> [that.]
light ........ light .... darkness <0216 0996 02822> [the light from the darkness. Heb. between the light and between the darkness.]
day .... darkness ............. day <03117 02822> [Day, and.]
evening ..... morning <06153 01242> [And the evening and the morning were. Heb. And the evening was, and the morning was.]
expanse <07549> [Let there.]
expanse <07549> [firmament. Heb. expansion.]
separated <0914> [divided.]
above <05921> [above.]
so <03651> [and it.]
God <0430> [God.]
evening <06153> [evening.]
God .............. God saw <07200 0430> [God saw.]
land <0776> [Let the.]
vegetation <01877> [grass. Heb. tender grass. fruit.]
land <0776> [earth.]
plants <06212> [herb.]
lights <03974> [Let there.]
lights <03974> [lights.]
Or, rather, luminaries or light-bearers; being a different world from that rendered light, in ver. 3, the day from the night.
[between the day and between the night. and let.]
rule over ......... rule over <04475> [to rule. Heb. for the rule, etc.]
made ......................... stars <06213 03556> [he made the stars also. Or, with the stars also.]
water <04325> [Let the waters.]
swarms <08318> [moving. or, creeping.]
living <02416> [life. Heb. a living soul.]
birds fly <05774 05775> [fowl that may fly. Heb. let fowl fly.]
This marginal reading is more conformable to the original, and reconciles this passage with ch. 2:19. The word fowl, from the Saxon {fleon,} to fly, exactly corresponds to the original, which denotes every thing that flies, whether bird or insect.
across ... expanse <07549 06440> [open firmament. Heb. face of the firmament.]
great <01419> [great.]
swarmed <08317> [brought.]
God .............................. God saw <07200 0430> [God saw.]
land <0776> [Let.]
Cattle, denotes domestic animals living on vegetables;--Beasts of the earth, wild animals; especially such as live on flesh; and--Creeping things, reptiles; or all the different genera of serpents, worms, and such animals as have no feet.
make <06213> [Let us.]
humankind <0120> [man.]
In Hebrew, Adam; probably so called either from the red earth of which he was formed, or from the blush or flesh-tint of the human countenance: the name is intended to designate the species.
image <06754> [in our.]
rule <07287> [have dominion.]
image .... image <06754> [in the image.]
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male <02145> [male.]
moves <07430> [moveth. Heb. creepeth.]
give <05414> [I have.]
seed-bearing <02232> [bearing. Heb. seeding. to you.]
animals ............................ life <02416> [life. Heb. a living soul.]
very good <02896 03966> [very good.]
evening ..... morning <06153 01242> [and the.]
Genesis 10:21-22
Shem <08035> [Shem.]
Shem signifies name or renown; and his, indeed, was great both in a temporal and spiritual sense, inasmuch as he was destined to be the lineal ancestor of the promised Seed of the woman, to which Noah might allude in his pious ejaculation, ch. 9:26.
father <01> [the father.]
Eber <05677> [Eber.]
brother <0251> [the brother.]
sons <01121> [children.]
Elam <05867> [Elam.]
Arphaxad <0775> [Arphaxad. Heb. Arpachshad. Lud.]
Aram <0758> [Aram.]
Genesis 30:23
barrenness therefore was reckoned a reproach. The intense desire of having children, observable among the Jewish women, arose not only from this reproach of barrenness, but from the hope of being the mother of the promised seed, and Him in whom all the nations of the earth were to be blessed.
