Genesis 8:4
in Genesis 8On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
KJV
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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This verse in Genesis 8
Commentary
8 notes on this verseThe mountains of Ararat - That Ararat was a mountain of Armenia is almost universally agreed. What is commonly thought to be the Ararat of the Scriptures, has been visited by many travelers, and on it there are several monasteries. For a long time the world has been amused with reports that the remains of the ark were still visible there; but Mr. Tournefort, a famous French naturalist, who was on the spot, assures us that nothing of the kind is there to be seen.
This site's exposition
the ark came to rest
on Genesis 8:4-5
The verb behind came to rest is nuach, the root that gives Noah his name, and it sounds again in the dove that finds no place to rest her foot at verse 9. The ark settles two and a half months before the tops of the mountains become visible. Ararat in the Hebrew names a whole region.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
In the Chaldaean books of Bêrôsus and certain others it is thus written: that ten kings reigned over the Chaldaeans 2242 myriads of years, but, under their tenth king Xisuthrus, as they called him, there was a great flood, and that Xisuthrus being warned by …
The springs of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were open forty days and forty nights and "the ark was afloat for one hundred fifty days."
The Medieval Church1 voice
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia. That the ark rested in the seventh month refers symbolically to that seventh rest about which it has often been spoken, as those who are …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The mountain which tradition points to as the one on which the ark rested is now called Ara Dagh, the "finger mountain." Its summit consists of two peaks, the higher of which is 17,750 feet and the other 13,420 above the level of the sea.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
The mountain which tradition points to as the one on which the ark rested is now called Ara Dagh, the "finger mountain." Its summit consists of two peaks, the higher of which is 17,750 feet and the other 13,420 above the level of the sea.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתָּ֤נַח | vatanach | and it rested | H5117 → | 142 times |
| הַתֵּבָה֙ | hatevah | the ark | H8392 → | 28 times |
| בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ | bachodesh | in the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י | hashevii | <the> seventh | H7637 → | 98 times |
| בְּשִׁבְעָה־ | beshivah- | on [the] seven- | H7651 → | 394 times |
| עָשָׂ֥ר | ʾasar | teen | H6240 → | 338 times |
| י֖וֹם | yom | day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ | lachodesh | of the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| עַ֖ל | ʾal | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הָרֵ֥י | harei | [the] mountains of | H2022 → | 546 times |
| אֲרָרָֽט׃ | ʾararat | Ararat | H780 → |
וַתָּ֤נַחand it rested
vatanachH5117 →142 times
הַתֵּבָה֙the ark
hatevahH8392 →28 times
בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁin the month
bachodeshH2320 →284 times
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י<the> seventh
hasheviiH7637 →98 times
בְּשִׁבְעָה־on [the] seven-
beshivah-H7651 →394 times
עָשָׂ֥רteen
ʾasarH6240 →338 times
י֖וֹםday
yomH3117 →2304 times
לַחֹ֑דֶשׁof the month
lachodeshH2320 →284 times
עַ֖לon
ʾalH5921 →5755 times
הָרֵ֥י[the] mountains of
hareiH2022 →546 times
אֲרָרָֽט׃Ararat
ʾararatH780 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 37:38One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 51:27
“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezra 4:2
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 36:15
Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
- Jeremiah 51:27
Through
Jeremiah 51:27“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses…
it leads to
- Genesis 10:3
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
- 1 Chronicles 1:6
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
- Jeremiah 25:14
For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
- Jeremiah 50:2
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced,…
- Jeremiah 51:12
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
- Genesis 10:3
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron); Cosmas Indicopleustes, The Christian Topography, Book 12; Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 6.11.2-6.12.1; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).