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And there wasוַיְהִיeveningעֶרֶבand there wasוַיְהִיmorning,בֹקֶרa fourthרְבִיעִיday.יוֹם
Genesis 1:19
Study it in the app“And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 1:19, word by word
- And there wasיְהִיyehi
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yehi” appears- eveningעֶרֶבerev
evening
Evening, when the sun goes down. Each day of Genesis 1 is counted "evening and morning"; so in Israel the day begins at sunset.
Where else “erev” appears- morningבֹקֶרvoker
morning
Morning, dawn.
Where else “voker” appears- a fourthרְבִיעִיrevii
fourth
What holds the place after the third.
Where else “revii” appears- dayיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears
The context
18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good.
19 · This verse (above)
20And Elohim said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the vault of the heavens.”
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?