Study it in the app“And 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.””
AndוַElohimאֱלֹהִיםsaid,יֹּאמֶר“Letיִשְׁרְצוּthe watersהַמַּיִםswarmיִשְׁרְצוּwith swarmsשֶׁרֶץof living beings,נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּהandוְletיְעוֹפֵףbirdsעוֹףflyיְעוֹפֵףaboveעַלthe earthהָאָרֶץacross the faceעַל פְּנֵיof the vaultרְקִיעַof the heavens.”הַשָּׁמָיִם
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsswarm
Swarm: move in great numbers, multiply until a place is full, like fish or insects.
Where else “yishrtsu” appearswater
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appearsswarming things
A swarm of small animals that move in great numbers: fish, insects, small reptiles.
Where else “sherets” appearsliving being
Something alive that breathes, person or animal.
Where else “nefesh” appearsbeast
Literally "living thing": a creature, especially a wild one.
Where else “chaya” appearsfly
To move through the air with wings, like birds and seraphim.
Where else “yeofef” appearsbird
The animals with wings and feathers that fly through the sky: doves, eagles, ravens.
Where else “of” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appearssurface
The surface: "the face of the earth".
Where else “pene” appearsvault
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” appearssky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appears19And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 · This verse (above)
21And Elohim created the great sea monsters and every living being that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
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?
