Genesis 1:1--3:24
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.]
[See]
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.]
heavens <08064> [Thus.]
that was in them <06635> [host.]
seventh ................. seventh <07637> [And on.]
seventh day God ............. on ... seventh day <03117 0430 07637> [seventh day God.]
The LXX., Syriac, and the Samaritan Text read the sixth day, which is probably the true reading; as [vav <\\See definition 02053\\>,] which stands for six, might easily be changed into [zayin,] which denotes seven.
ceased <07673> [rested.]
Or, rather, ceased, as the Hebrew word is not opposed to weariness, but to action; as the Divine Being can neither know fatigue, nor stand in need of rest.
blessed <01288> [blessed.]
made ............... been doing ... creation <01254 06213> [created and made. Heb. created to make.]
account <08435> [the generations.]
Lord <03068> [Lord.]
shrub <07880> [plant.]
not <03808> [had not.]
cultivate <05647> [to till.]
Springs ... well up <0108 05927> [there went up a mist. or, a mist which went up.]
formed ... man ................... man <03335 0120> [formed man.]
[of the dust. Heb. the dust of, etc. dust.]
breathed <05301> [and breathed.]
nostrils <0639> [nostrils.]
life ....... living <02416> [a living.]
orchard <01588> [a garden.]
east <06924> [eastward.]
placed ... man <07760 0120> [put the.]
tree .............. tree ...... tree <06086> [every.]
tree .............. tree ... life .... tree <02416 06086> [tree of life.]
tree .............. tree ...... tree .... knowledge <01847 06086> [tree of knowledge.]
river <05104> [a river.]
Eden <05731> [Eden.]
Eden denotes pleasure or delight; but was certainly the name of a place, and was, most probably, situated in Armenia, near the sources of the great rivers Euphrates, Tigris, Phasis, and Araxes.
Havilah <02341> [Havilah.]
Bdellium is a transparent aromatic gum. The onyx is a precious stone, so called from a Greek word signifying a man's nail, to the colour of which it nearly approaches.
lazuli <07718> [onyx.]
Gihon <01521> [Gihon.]
The Araxes, which runs into the Caspian sea.
Cush <03568> [Ethiopia. Heb. Cush.]
The country of the ancient Cussaei.
Tigris <02313> [Hiddekel.]
[The Tigris. toward the east of. or, eastward to.]
Euphrates <06578> [Euphrates.]
man <0120> [the man. or, Adam.]
placed <03240> [put.]
God <0430> [God.]
freely eat <0398> [thou mayest freely eat. Heb. eating thou shalt eat.]
tree <06086> [of the tree.]
surely die <04191> [thou shalt surely die. Heb. dying thou shalt die. surely.]
good <02896> [good.]
make <06213> [I will.]
companion for him <05828> [meet for him. Heb. as before him.]
ground <0127> [And out.]
brought <0935> [brought.]
man ............ man <0120> [Adam. or, the man.]
So .... named <07121 08034> [gave names to. Heb. called. but.]
Then <01129> [made. Heb. builded.]
brought <0935> [brought.]
bone .... bones <06106> [bone.]
flesh .... flesh <01320> [flesh.]
woman <0802> [Woman. Heb. Isha.]
taken out <03947> [taken.]
man <0376> [Man. Heb. Ish.]
leaves <05800> [leave.]
unites <01692> [cleave.]
a ... family <0259 01320> [and they shall be one flesh.]
The LXX., Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan read, "they two;" as is also read in several of the Parallel Passages.
naked <06174> [naked.]
ashamed <0954> [ashamed.]
serpent <05175> [Now.]
serpent <05175> [serpent.]
The Samaritan Copy, instead of {nachash,} "a serpent," reads {cachash,} "a liar or deceiver," read Joh 8:44.
said ........... said <0559> [he said.]
God ........... really .... God <0637 0430> [Yea, hath. Heb. Yea, because, etc. hath.]
serpent <05175> [serpent.]
fruit <06529> [But.]
touch <05060> [touch.]
serpent <05175> [serpent.]
Surely ..... die <04191> [Ye.]
God .................. divine <0430> [God.]
eyes <05869> [your.]
God .................. divine <0430> [as gods.]
knows .................... know <03045> [knowing.]
saw <07200> [saw.]
attractive <08378> [pleasant. Heb. a desire.]
eye <05869> [to the eyes.]
ate .................. ate <0398> [and did.]
ate .................. ate <0398> [and he did eat.]
eyes <05869> [And the.]
knew <03045> [knew.]
they ...... sewed <01992 08609> [and they.]
coverings <02290> [aprons. or, things to gird about.]
heard <08085> [And they.]
breezy ..... day <03117 07307> [cool of the day. Heb. wind.]
hid <02244> [hid.]
afraid <03372> [and I was.]
I <0595> [because.]
done <06213> [What.]
serpent <05175> [The serpent.]
cursed <0779> [thou art.]
dust <06083> [dust.]
hostility <0342> [enmity.]
offspring .... offspring <02233> [thy seed.]
offspring .... offspring <02233> [her seed.]
attack ....... attack <07779> [it shall.]
attack ....... attack <07779> [thou.]
pain <06089> [in sorrow.]
want <08669> [thy desire.]
husband <0376> [to. or, subject to. rule.]
obeyed <08085> [Because.]
ate ............. eat ................ eat <0398> [and hast.]
cursed <0779> [cursed.]
toil <06093> [in sorrow.]
thorns <06975> [Thorns.]
produce <06779> [bring forth. Heb. cause to bud. herb.]
sweat <02188> [In.]
until <05704> [till.]
dust .... dust <06083> [for dust.]
dust .... dust <06083> [and.]
man <0120> [Adam.]
Eve <02332> [Eve. Heb. Chavah; that is, living. of.]
made <06213> [make.]
one <0259> [as one.]
tree <06086> [tree.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
cultivate <05647> [till.]
eastern <06924> [east.]
angelic sentries <03742> [Cherubims.]
flame <03858> [a flaming.]
guard <08104> [to keep.]
Genesis 8:1-22
God remembered .................. God <02142 0430> [God remembered.]
domestic animals <0929> [the cattle.]
wind <07307> [a wind.]
fountains <04599> [fountains.]
rain <01653> [the rain.]
steadily <01980> [continually. Heb. in going and returning. hundred.]
ark <08392> [the ark.]
seventh month <02320 07637> [seventh month.]
That is, of the year, not of the deluge.
Ararat <0780> [Ararat.]
Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia, as it is rendered elsewhere, in which there is a great chain of mountains, like the Alps or the Pyrenees, upon the highest part of which, called by some, "The Finger Mountain," the ark is supposed to have rested.
on receding <02637 01980> [decreased continually. Heb. were in going and decreasing. the tenth.]
opened ... window <06605 02474> [opened the window.]
raven <06158> [a raven.]
flying back ... forth <03318 07725> [went forth to and fro. Heb. in going forth and returning.]
dove <03123> [a dove.]
find <04672> [found.]
returned <07725> [and she.]
brought <0935> [pulled her. Heb. caused her to come.]
waited <02342> [stayed.]
seven <07651> [seven.]
olive <02132> [an olive.]
waited <03176> [And he.]
seven <07651> [seven.]
six <08337> [A.M. 1657. B.C. 2347. six.]
From this, it appears, that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year, or 365 days; for he entered it on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the 600th year of his life, and continued in it till the 27th day of the 2nd month, in the 601st year of his life, as we see above.
Bring out <03318> [Bring.]
increase <08317> [breed.]
groups <04940> [kinds. Heb. families.]
built <01129> [builded.]
clean animal ... clean <0929 02889> [clean beast.]
burnt offerings <05930> [burnt.]
smelled <07306> [smelled.]
soothing aroma <07381 05207> [sweet savour. Heb. savour of rest. curse.]
humankind ..... inclination .... minds <0120 03336> [for. or, though. the imagination.]
again ....................... again <03254> [neither.]
done <06213> [as I.]
earth continues to exist ............. day <0776 03117> [While the earth remaineth. Heb. as yet all the days of the earth.]
planting time <02233> [seed-time.]
Most of the European nations divide the year into four distinct parts, called quarters or seasons; but there are six divisions in the text, which obtained in Palestine among the Hebrews, and exist among the Arabs to the present day. According to this gracious promise, the heavenly bodies have preserved their courses, the seasons their successions, and the earth its increase for the use of man.
continues to exist ............. day <03117> [day.]
Genesis 10:1--11:32
account <08435> [are the.]
sons ...... Sons <01121> [and unto.]
Kittim <03794> [A.M. 1666. B.C. 2338. Kittim.]
[Chittim. Dodanim. or, Rodanim.]
<0339> [A.M. 1757. B.C. 2247. isles.]
language <03956> [after his.]
sons <01121> [A.M. 1676. B.C. 2228. And the.]
Ham <02526> [Ham.]
Ham signifies burnt or black; and this name was peculiarly significant of the regions allotted to his family. To the Cushites, or descendants of Cush, were allotted the hot southern regions of Asia, along the shores of the Persian Gulf, Susiana or Chusistan, etc.; to the sons of Canaan, Palestine and Syria; to the sons of Mizraim, Egypt and Libya, in Africa.
Cush <03568> [Cush.]
Put <06316> [Phut.]
Seba <05434> [Seba.]
Havilah <02341> [Havilah.]
Sheba <07614> [Sheba.]
Dedan <01719> [Dedan.]
Nimrod <05248> [A.M. 1715. B.C. 2289. Nimrod.]
mighty ............... mighty <01368> [a mighty.]
before ... Lord ............. before ... Lord <06440 03068> [before the Lord.]
Nimrod <05248> [Even.]
primary <07225> [A.M. 1745. B.C. 2259. And the.]
Babel <0894> [Babel. Gr. Babylon.]
Calneh <03641> [Calneh.]
Shinar <08152> [Shinar.]
went ... Assyria <03318 0804> [A.M. 1700. B.C. 2304. went forth Asshur. or, he went out into Assyria.]
Assyria <0804> [Asshur.]
Nineveh <05210> [Nineveh.]
<05892> [the city of. or, the streets of the city.]
Ludites <03866> [Ludim.]
Pathrusites <06625> [Pathrusim.]
Philistines <06430> [Philistim.]
Caphtorites <03732> [Caphtorim.]
Canaan <03667> [Canaan.]
Sidon <06721> [Sidon. Heb. Tzidon.]
[Zidon. Heth.]
Jebusites <02983> [Jebusite.]
Hivites <02340> [Hivite.]
Arvadites <0721> [Arvadite.]
Zemarites <06786> [Zemarite.]
Hamathites <02577> [Hamathite.]
borders <01366> [And the.]
to ........... to <0935> [as thou comest.]
Gerar <01642> [Gerar.]
Gaza <05804> [Gaza. Heb. Azzah.]
Sodom <05467> [Sodom.]
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.]
Uz <05780> [Uz.]
Shelah ... Shelah <07974> [Salah. Heb. Shelah.]
Eber <05677> [A.M. 1757. B.C. 2247. Eber.]
named .............. name <08034> [the name.]
Peleg <06389> [Peleg. i.e., division. in.]
[A.M. cir. 1797. B.C. cir. 2207.]
Ophir <0211> [Ophir.]
Havilah <02341> [Havilah.]
eastern hills <06924 02022> [mount of the east.]
families <04940> [are the.]
nations ...... nations <01471> [and by.]
Any man who can barely read his Bible, and has but heard of such people as the Assyrians, Elamites, Lydians, Medes, Ionians, and Thracians, will readily acknowledge that Asshur, Elam, Lud, Madai, Javan, and Tiras, grandsons of Noah, were their respective founders.
nations ...... nations <01471> [nations.]
<0259> [A.M. 1757. B.C. 2247. was.]
language <08193> [language. Heb. lip. speech. Heb. words.]
people moved eastward <06924> [from the east. or, eastward.]
Shinar <08152> [Shinar.]
said ... one another <0376 07453 0559> [they said one to another. Heb. a man said to his neighbour.]
Go to.
[not as.]
bake <08313> [burn throughly. Heb. burn to a burning. brick.]
tar <02564> [slime.]
top <07218> [whose.]
make <06213> [and let.]
scattered <06327> [lest.]
people <05971> [Behold.]
people <05971> [the people.]
sharing <02161> [imagined.]
Come <03051> [Go to.]
The Hebrew word signifies, "Come," or, "make preparation," as for a journey or the execution of a purpose.
go down <03381> [let.]
confuse <01101> [confound.]
understand <08085> [may.]
Lord <03068> [Lord.]
face <06440> [upon.]
Babel <0894> [Babel. that is, Confusion.]
The tower of Babel, Herodotus informs us, was a furlong or 660 feet, in length and breadth; and, according to Strabo, it rose to the same altitude. It was of a pyramidical form, consisting of eight square towers, gradually decreasing in breadth, with a winding ascent on the outside, so very broad as to allow horses and carriages to pass each other, and even to turn. This magnificent structure is so completely destroyed that its very site is doubtful; and when supposed to be discovered, in all cases exhibiting a heap of rubbish.
face <06440> [the face.]
[A.M. 1658. B.C. 2346.]
Shem <08035> [A.M. 2158. B.C. 1846. Shem.]
father .......... other sons <01121 03205> [begat sons.]
father <03205> [A.M. 1693. B.C. 2311. begat.]
[A.M. 2096. B.C. 1908.]
[A.M. 1723. B.C. 2281.]
[A.M. 2126. B.C. 1878.]
Eber <05677> [A.M. 1757. B.C. 2247. Eber.]
Peleg <06389> [Peleg.]
[Phalec.]
[A.M. 2187. B.C. 1817.]
Reu <07466> [A.M. 1787. B.C. 2217. Reu.]
[Ragau.]
[A.M. 1996. B.C. 2008.]
Serug <08286> [A.M. 1819. B.C. 2185. Serug.]
[Saruch.]
[A.M. 2026. B.C. 1978.]
Nahor <05152> [A.M. 1849. B.C. 2155. Nahor.]
[Nachor.]
[A.M. 2049. B.C. 1955.]
Terah <08646> [A.M. 1878. B.C. 2126. Terah.]
[Thara.]
[A.M. 1997. B.C. 2007.]
Abram <087> [A.M. 1948. B.C. 2056. Abram.]
Lot <03876> [A.M. 2008. B.C. 1996. Lot.]
Ur <0218> [Ur.]
Sarai <08297> [Sarai.]
Milcah ............ Milcah <04435> [Milcah.]
Iscah <03252> [Iscah.]
Iscah is called the daughter-in-law of Terah, (ver. 31,) as being Abram's wife; yet Abram afterwards said, "she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother." (ch. 20:12.) Probably Haran was the eldest son of Terah, and Abram his youngest by another wife; and thus Sarai was the daughter, or grand-daughter of Terah, Abram's father, but not of his mother.
barren <06135> [barren.]
took <03947> [A.M. 2078. B.C. 1926. took.]
set out <03318> [they went.]
Ur <0218> [Ur.]
Ur was probably the place called Ouri, in Mesopotamia, two days' journey from Nisibis, in the way to the river Tigris.
<0776> [the land.]
Haran ............................. Haran <02039 02771> [B.C. cir. 1923. A.M. cir. 2081. Haran.]
[Charran.]
[A.M. 2083. B.C. 1921.]
