Genesis 8:5
in Genesis 8And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
KJV
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
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This verse in Genesis 8
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
And the waters decreased continually--The decrease of the waters was for wise reasons exceedingly slow and gradual--the period of their return being nearly twice as long as that of their rise.
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 Fathers1 voice
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 Church2 voices
But the waters went back and decreased until the tenth month. The time of the tenth month can signify that period during which the saints enter the joys of eternal light with the Lord.
For on the first day of the tenth month, the mountain peaks appeared. The first day of the tenth month can be understood as the beginning of that eternal life, in which the saints, even while placed in this life, taste and see that the …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
And the waters decreased continually--The decrease of the waters was for wise reasons exceedingly slow and gradual--the period of their return being nearly twice as long as that of their rise.
The words behind it
13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַמַּ֗יִם | vehamayim | and the waters | H4325 → | 581 times |
| הָיוּ֙ | hayu | they were | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| הָל֣וֹךְ | halokh | going | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| וְחָס֔וֹר | vechasor | and decreasing | H2637 → | 23 times |
| עַ֖ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| הַחֹ֣דֶשׁ | hachodesh | the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הָֽעֲשִׂירִ֑י | haasiri | <the> tenth | H6224 → | |
| בָּֽעֲשִׂירִי֙ | baasiri | in the tenth [month] | H6224 → | |
| בְּאֶחָ֣ד | beechad | on [day] one | H259 → | 971 times |
| לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ | lachodesh | of the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| נִרְא֖וּ | niru | they were seen | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| רָאשֵׁ֥י | rashei | [the] tops of | H7218 → | 599 times |
| הֶֽהָרִֽים׃ | heharim | the mountains | H2022 → | 546 times |
וְהַמַּ֗יִםand the waters
vehamayimH4325 →581 times
הָיוּ֙they were
hayuH1961 →3559 times
הָל֣וֹךְgoing
halokhH1980 →1546 times
וְחָס֔וֹרand decreasing
vechasorH2637 →23 times
עַ֖דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
הַחֹ֣דֶשׁthe month
hachodeshH2320 →284 times
הָֽעֲשִׂירִ֑י<the> tenth
haasiriH6224 →
בָּֽעֲשִׂירִי֙in the tenth [month]
baasiriH6224 →
בְּאֶחָ֣דon [day] one
beechadH259 →971 times
לַחֹ֔דֶשׁof the month
lachodeshH2320 →284 times
נִרְא֖וּthey were seen
niruH7200 →1300 times
רָאשֵׁ֥י[the] tops of
rasheiH7218 →599 times
הֶֽהָרִֽים׃the mountains
heharimH2022 →546 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
it leads to
- Genesis 8:2
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- Proverbs 8:28–29
when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
- Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of…
- Amos 9:5–6
The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
- Psalms 78:23–24
Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
- Genesis 8:2
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About Genesis
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron); 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).