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and he sent outוַיְשַׁלַּחthe raven,אֶת הָעֹרֵבandוַit wentיֵּצֵאgoing outיָצוֹאand returningוָשׁוֹבuntilעַדthe watersהַמַּיִםhad dried upיְבֹשֶׁתfromמֵעַלthe earth.הָאָרֶץ
Genesis 8:7
Study it in the app“and he sent out the raven, and it went going out and returning until the waters had dried up from the earth.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 8:7, word by word
- and he sent outיְשַׁלַּחyeshalach
let go
To set free, release.
Where else “yeshalach” appears- the ravenעֹרֵבorev
raven
Raven.
Where else “orev” appears- it wentיֵּצֵאyetse
go out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yetse” appears- and returningשׁוֹבshov
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “shov” appears- the watersמַּיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears- had dried upיְבֹשֶׁתyevoshet
dry up
To lose water or moisture and become parched or withered.
Where else “yevoshet” appears- the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears
The context
6And it happened at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,
7 · This verse (above)
8And he sent out the dove from him to see whether the waters had decreased from the face of the ground.
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?