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and let them beוְהָיוּlightsלִמְאוֹרֹתin the vaultבִּרְקִיעַof the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִםto give lightלְהָאִירon the earth.”עַל הָאָרֶץAnd it wasוַיְהִיso.כֵן
Genesis 1:15
Study it in the app“and let them be lights in the vault of the heavens to give light on the earth.” And it was so.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 1:15, word by word
- and let them beהָיוּhayu
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayu” appears- lightsמְאוֹרֹתmeorot
luminary
The sun, moon and stars.
Where else “meorot” appears- in the vaultרְקִיעַrekia
vault
Something spread out and firm, like a sheet of metal beaten with a hammer. It is the "vault" of the heavens: what is seen above, like a roof spread over the earth, which God set to separate the waters below from the waters above; God called it "heavens".
Where else “rekia” appears- of the heavensשָּׁמַיִםshamayim
sky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appears- to give lightהָאִירhair
give light
To fill with light and drive away darkness; also to light a lamp.
Where else “hair” appears- on the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears
The context
14And Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;
15 · This verse (above)
16And Elohim made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.
To study Genesis 1 in a group
1. What it says
What did Elohim say about everything he had made at the end of the sixth day (v. 31)?
2. What it means
What does the text say about human beings when it says they were created in the image of Elohim (v. 27)?
3. How I live it
How can you treat the people around you today, remembering that every one of them was created in the image of Elohim?