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AndוַElohimאֱלֹהִיםspokeיְדַבֵּרto Noah,אֶל נֹחַsaying,לֵאמֹר
Genesis 8:15
Study it in the app“And Elohim spoke to Noah, saying,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 8:15, word by word
- Elohimאֱלֹהִיםelohim
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appears- spokeיְדַבֵּרyedaber
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “yedaber” appears- to Noahנֹחַnoach
Noah
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” appears- sayingאמֹרmor
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appears
The context
14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 · This verse (above)
16“Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and the wives of your sons with you.
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?