Study it in the app“And it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and look, the face of the ground had dried.”
And it happenedוַיְהִיin theבְּsix hundredשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹתand firstאַחַת וְyear,שָׁנָהin the first month,בָּרִאשׁוֹןon the first dayבְּאֶחָדof the month,לַחֹדֶשׁthatthe watersהַמַּיִםdried upחָרְבוּfromמֵעַלthe earth;הָאָרֶץandוַNoahנֹחַremovedיָּסַרthe coveringאֶת מִכְסֵהof the arkהַתֵּבָהand looked,וַיַּרְאand look,וְהִנֵּהthe faceפְּנֵיof the groundהָאֲדָמָהhad dried.חָרְבוּ
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “yehi” appearssix
Six; also "sixth".
Where else “shesh” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meot” appearsfirst
Literally "one": day one of the month.
Where else “achat” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shana” appearsfirst
What comes ahead in order or in time; the first.
Where else “rishon” appearsmonth
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodesh” appearswater
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appearsdry up
To be left without water, a river, a sea or a spring.
Where else “charvu” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appearsNoah
Noah, son of Lamech, the man who found favor with YHWH and was saved with his family in the ark from the flood. In Hebrew "Noach" sounds like "rest" and "comfort" (Genesis 5:29).
Where else “noach” appearsremove
To take away something from where it was: an altar, a load, an office, loyal love.
Where else “yasar” appearscovering
Covering, roof.
Where else “michse” appearsark
Ark: a large box or chest. It is Noah's vessel; the same word is used only again for the basket where the baby Moses was put (Exodus 2:3).
Where else “teva” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “yar” appearssurface
The surface: "the face of the earth".
Where else “pene” appearssoil
Farmland, or dust.
Where else “adama” appears12And he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.
13 · This verse (above)
14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
1. What it says
What happened when Elohim remembered Noah, and what did Noah do when he came out of the ark (vv. 1, 20)?
2. What it means
What does YHWH’s promise never again to curse the ground because of humans mean (v. 21)?
3. How I live it
For what good thing can you give thanks today, as Noah did when he came out of the ark?
