Genesis 8:1--11:32
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.]
blessed <01288> [blessed.]
fruitful <06509> [Be.]
moving thing <07431> [Every.]
green <03418> [even.]
life <05315> [the life.]
creature ..................... man <02416 0376> [every.]
punishment ......... punishment ........ punishment <03027> [and at.]
relative <0251> [brother.]
human ..... humans .............. humankind <0120> [by.]
image <06754> [in.]
confirm <06965> [And I.]
living <01320> [neither shall all.]
remember <02142> [remember.]
waters <04325> [the waters.]
perpetual <05769> [everlasting.]
Shem <08035> [Shem.]
Ham ..... Ham <02526> [Ham.]
Canaan <03667> [Canaan. Heb. Chenaan.]
<07969> [These.]
earth <0776> [and of.]
<0376> [an husbandman.]
plant <05193> [planted.]
drunk <07937> [and was.]
drank .......... uncovered <08354 01540> [and he.]
Ham <02526> [Ham.]
told <05046> [told.]
Cursed <0779> [Cursed.]
lowest of slaves <05650> [a servant.]
The devoted nations, which God destroyed before Israel, were descended from Canaan: and so were the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who were at length subjugated with dreadful destruction by the Greeks and Romans. The Africans, who have been bought and sold like beasts, were also his posterity.
Worthy <01288> [Blessed.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
[Sem.]
slave <05650> [his servant. or, servant to them.]
enlarge <06601> [enlarge. or, persuade. Japheth.]
Japheth denotes enlargement, and how wonderfully have his boundaries been enlarged; for not only Europe, but Asia Minor, part of Armenia, Iberia, the whole of the vast regions of Asia north of Taurus, and probably America, fell to the share of his posterity.
live <07931> [he shall dwell.]
These words may mean either that God or that Japheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem. In either sense the prophecy has been literally fulfilled.
live <07931> [dwell.]
950 <08672> [A.M. 2006. B.C. 1998. nine.]
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.]
Genesis 20:1
Negev <05045> [A.M. cir. 2107. B.C. cir. 1897. from.]
Kadesh <06946> [Kadesh.]
Gerar <01642> [Gerar.]
Gerar was a city of Arabia Petr‘a, under a king of the Philistines, 25 miles from Eleutheropolis beyond Daroma, in the south of Judah. From ch. 10:19, it appears to have been situated in the angle where the south and west sides of Canaan met, and to have been not far from Gaza. Jerome, in his Hebrew Traditions on Genesis, says, from Gerar to Jerusalem was three days' journey. There was a wood near Gerar, spoken of by Theodoret; and a brook, (ch. 26:26,) on which was a monastery, noticed by Sozomen.
Genesis 21:19
Numbers 23:19-20
God <0410> [God.]
spoken <01696> [or hath he.]
bless .... blessed <01288> [he hath.]
reverse <07725> [I cannot.]
Numbers 24:13
Isaiah 3:11
bad <0188> [Woe.]
what they deserve <01576> [for the reward.]
<06213> [given him. Heb. done to him.]
