Genesis 1:23
in Genesis 1And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
KJV
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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This verse in Genesis 1
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Then God blessed them
on Genesis 1:22-23
This is the first blessing in the Bible, and it falls on fish and birds. To bless here is to hand over the power to multiply and to fill the waters of the seas. God blessed man with the same words at verse 28 and blessed Noah at Genesis 9:1.
This site's exposition
the fifth day
Each day in the chapter is counted from evening to morning, and Israel kept its days the same way. The Day of Atonement ran on that count at Leviticus 23:32. Basil of Caesarea taught that before the sun, God Himself set the measure of each day and night.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. The sun now in the firmament, where it was fixed the day before, having gone round the earth, or the earth about that, in the space of twenty four hours; and according to Capellus this was the twenty second of April; or, as others, the fifth of September; and according to Bishop Usher the twenty seventh of October.
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַֽיְהִי־ | vayhi- | and there was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עֶ֥רֶב | ʾerev | evening | H6153 → | 134 times |
| וַֽיְהִי־ | vayhi- | and there was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בֹ֖קֶר | voker | morning | H1242 → | 214 times |
| י֥וֹם | yom | a day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| חֲמִישִֽׁי׃ פ | chamishi | fifth | H2549 → | 45 times |
וַֽיְהִי־and there was
vayhi-H1961 →3559 times
עֶ֥רֶבevening
ʾerevH6153 →134 times
וַֽיְהִי־and there was
vayhi-H1961 →3559 times
בֹ֖קֶרmorning
vokerH1242 →214 times
י֥וֹםa day
yomH3117 →2304 times
חֲמִישִֽׁי׃ פfifth
chamishiH2549 →45 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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On this chapter
- Adam
- The Bible and the Ancient Near East
- The Designer's Fingerprint
- The Numbers of Scripture
- The Covenants
- Creation and Evolution
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About Genesis
This page draws on Basil of Caesarea, The Hexaemeron, Homily 2: The Earth Was Invisible and Unfinished; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.