Study it in the app“For in seven more days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all that exists, which I have made, from the face of the ground.””
ForכִּיinלְsevenשִׁבְעָהmoreעוֹדdaysיָמִיםIאָנֹכִיwill send rainמַמְטִירonעַלthe earthהָאָרֶץfortyאַרְבָּעִיםdaysיוֹםand fortyוְאַרְבָּעִיםnights,לָיְלָהand I will wipe outוּמָחִיתִיallאֶת כָּלthat exists,הַיְקוּםwhichאֲשֶׁרI have made,עָשִׂיתִיfrom the faceמֵעַל פְּנֵיof the ground.”הָאֲדָמָה
seven
Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".
Where else “shiva” appearsday
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yamim” appearsrain
Send rain, make it rain.
Where else “mamtir” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appearsforty
Forty.
Where else “arbaim” appearsnight
Night.
Where else “layla” appearsblot out
To erase completely, or destroy someone.
Where else “machiti” appearsliving thing
Every living thing, all that exists and lives on the earth.
Where else “yekum” appearsmake
To build or create something.
Where else “asiti” appearssurface
The surface: "the face of the earth".
Where else “pene” appearssoil
Farmland, or dust.
Where else “adama” appears3also of the birds of the sky seven and seven, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4 · This verse (above)
5And Noah did according to all that YHWH had commanded him.
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?
