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And in the secondוּ הַשֵּׁנִיmonth,בַחֹדֶשׁon the twenty-seventhוְעֶשְׂרִים בְּשִׁבְעָהdayיוֹםof the month,לַחֹדֶשׁthe earthהָאָרֶץwas dry.יָבְשָׁה
Genesis 8:14
Study it in the app“And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 8:14, word by word
- And in the secondשֵּׁנִיsheni
second
The one that comes after the first; the other of two.
Where else “sheni” appears- monthחֹדֶשׁchodesh
month
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodesh” appears- on the twenty-seventhעֶשְׂרִיםesrim
twenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appears- on the twenty-seventhשִׁבְעָהshiva
seven
Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".
Where else “shiva” appears- dayיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears- was dryיָבְשָׁהyavsha
dry up
To lose water or moisture and become parched or withered.
Where else “yavsha” appears
The context
13And 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.
14 · This verse (above)
15And Elohim spoke to Noah, saying,
To study Genesis 8 in a group
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?