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Andוַthe watersהַמַּיִםrecededיָּשֻׁבוּfrom the earth,מֵעַל הָאָרֶץgoingהָלוֹךְand receding;וָשׁוֹבandוַat the endמִקְצֵהof a hundredוּמְאַתandfiftyחֲמִשִּׁיםdaysיוֹםthe watersהַמַּיִםhad decreased.יַּחְסְרוּ
Genesis 8:3
Study it in the app“And the waters receded from the earth, going and receding; and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had decreased.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 8:3, word by word
- the watersמַּיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears- recededיָּשֻׁבוּyashuvu
bring back
To return something, restore.
Where else “yashuvu” appears- from the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears- goingהָלוֹךְhaloch
keep growing
Something that grows little by little.
Where else “haloch” appears- at the endקְצֵהketse
close
What comes when a time finishes: the close of the years.
Where else “ketse” appears- of a hundredמְאַתmeat
hundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meat” appears- fiftyחֲמִשִּׁיםchamishim
fifty
Fifty.
Where else “chamishim” appears- daysיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- had decreasedיַּחְסְרוּyachsru
lack, be lacking
Lack, be short of; decrease.
Where else “yachsru” appears
The context
2And the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was held back.
3 · This verse (above)
4And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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?