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And the watersוְהַמַּיִםkeptהָיוּon decreasingהָלוֹךְ וְחָסוֹרuntilעַדthe tenthהָעֲשִׂירִיmonth;הַחֹדֶשׁin the tenth month,בָּעֲשִׂירִיon the first dayבְּאֶחָדof the month,לַחֹדֶשׁthe topsרָאשֵׁיof the mountainsהֶהָרִיםappeared.נִרְאוּ
Genesis 8:5
Study it in the app“And the waters kept on decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 8:5, word by word
- And the watersמַּיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears- keptהָיוּhayu
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayu” appears- on decreasingהָלוֹךְhaloch
keep growing
Something that grows little by little.
Where else “haloch” appears- on decreasingחָסוֹרchasor
lack, be lacking
Lack, be short of; decrease.
Where else “chasor” appears- the tenthעֲשִׂירִיasiri
tenth
The one in tenth place in a list.
Where else “asiri” appears- monthחֹדֶשׁchodesh
month
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodesh” appears- on the first dayאֶחָדechad
first
Literally "one": day one of the month.
Where else “echad” appears- the topsרָאשֵׁיrashe
top
Literally "the head": the highest part, as of a mountain.
Where else “rashe” appears- of the mountainsהָרִיםharim
mountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “harim” appears- appearedנִרְאוּniru
appear
To let oneself be seen: YHWH let Abram see him.
Where else “niru” appears
The context
4And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 · This verse (above)
6And it happened at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,
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?