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Andוַthe rainהַגֶּשֶׁםwasיְהִיonעַלthe earthהָאָרֶץfortyאַרְבָּעִיםdaysיוֹםand fortyוְאַרְבָּעִיםnights.לָיְלָה
Genesis 7:12
Study it in the app“And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 7:12, word by word
- the rainגֶּשֶׁםgeshem
heavy rain
Heavy rain, downpour.
Where else “geshem” appears- wasיְהִיyehi
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yehi” appears- the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears- fortyאַרְבָּעִיםarbaim
forty
Forty.
Where else “arbaim” appears- daysיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- nightsלָיְלָהlayla
night
Night.
Where else “layla” appears
The context
11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12 · This verse (above)
13On that very day Noah went into the ark, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them,
To study Genesis 7 in a group
1. What it says
Who entered the ark, and what did YHWH do after they went in (vv. 7, 16)?
2. What it means
What does the text teach by repeating that Noah did all that Elohim had commanded him (vv. 5, 9)?
3. How I live it
What step you have been putting off can you take this week in obedience to what you know is good?