Genesis 1:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. ”

Genesis 1:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- VII. The Fifth Day 20. שׁרץ shārats , “crawl, teem, swarm, abound.” An intransitive verb, admitting, however, an objective noun of its own or a like signification. נפשׁ nephesh , “bre...
Genesis 1:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And God (r) blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. (r) That is, by the virtue of his word he gave power to his creature...
Genesis 1:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

On the fifth day were created the denizens of the water and the atmosphere; the creatures that move in swarms in the water, all winged creatures, including insects, and the sea monsters, especially,...
Genesis 1:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

blessed. See on Genesis 1:1 . Note the threefold blessing at Creation ( Genesis 1:22 ; Genesis 1:28 ; Genesis 2:3 ).
Genesis 1:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

22. And God blessed them What is the force of this benediction he soon declares. For God does not, after the manner of men, pray that we may be blessed; but, by the bare intimation of his pu...
Genesis 1:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. Let fowl multiply in the earth - It is truly astonishing with what care,...
Genesis 1:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And God blessed them, &c.— Not only their being, but the continuance of it is provided for. Life is a fleeting thing; succession is needful. God hath commanded it shall be, and, in virtue of hi...
Genesis 1:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Genesis 1:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Creation 'The foundation of foundations and pillar of all wisdom is to know that the First Being is, and that He giveth existence to everything that exists! 'Thus wrote Moses Maimonides, a Jew...
Genesis 1:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM. Throughout the first account of creation ( Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3 ) the Deity is simply called Elohim. This word is strictly a plural of...
Genesis 1:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE CREATION Genesis 1:1-31 ; Genesis 2:1-25 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order...
Genesis 1:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Man Creation's Crown Genesis 1:20-31 Creation reveals God's nature, as the picture the artist. His eternal Power and Godhead are visible in His works. See Romans 1:20 . And all things and bein...
Genesis 1:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The opening sentence of the Book of Genesis is an interpretation of the fact "that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do appear" Hebrews 11:3 ), and accounts for the things which ar...
Genesis 1:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and ove...
Genesis 1:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And God blessed them ,.... With a power to procreate their kind, and continue their species, as it is interpreted in the next clause; saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the...
Genesis 1:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. Ver. 22. Be fruitful and multiply. ] By bidding them do so, he made...
Genesis 1:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

God blessed them Behold the cause of the continuance in existence, and of the fruitfulness and multiplication, of the sundry kinds of creatures! It is owing to this word only that, though thousands...
Genesis 1:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has given us this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply and decisively in the first statement of His own revelation to man...
Genesis 1:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Creation. B. C. 4004. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the m...
Genesis 1:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He gave them power of procreation and fruitfulness, which is justly mentioned as a great blessing, Psalms 128:3-4 . Fill the waters in the seas; and consequently in the rivers, which come from...
Genesis 1:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And God said, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and let birds fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heaven”. And God created the great sea mon...
Genesis 1:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:20 . Creature] Here, and in Genesis 1:21 ; Genesis 1:24 , “creature” stands for Heb. nephesh (Sept. psychê ), and in Genesis 1:30 “wherein is life” is, more exac...
Genesis 1:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 1 It is possible that God made at first only one kind of matter, the germ of all the universe. Indeed, Scripture seems to hint this in the sublime record of the origin of light: "And God s...
Genesis 1:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 1:1 . In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. When that «beginning» was, we cannot tell. It may have been long ages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, bu...
Genesis 1:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Let the waters bring forth abundantly Fish and fowl I. THAT LIFE IS THE IMMEDIATE CREATION OF GOD. 1. Life was not an education. 2. It was not the result of combination. 3. It was a mi...
Genesis 1:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 1:20 Day five. The waters and the air, separated on the second day, are on this filled with their respective inhabitants. And God said. Nature never makes an onward...
Genesis 1:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Creation of Marine Animals and Birds
Genesis 1:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 1:28 Genesis 8:17 Genesis 9:1 Genesis 30:27 Genesis 30:30 Genesis 35:11 Leviticus 26:9 Job 40:15 Job 42:12 Psalms 107:31 Psalms 107:38 Psalms 128:3 Psalms 144:13 Ps...
Genesis 1:22 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Creation Scenes Genesis 1:11-31 ; Genesis 2:1-2 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12 , we find the story of God's command to the earth to bring forth grass, the herb yieldin...

Genesis 1:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 1:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 1:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 1:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 1:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 1:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 1:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 1:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 1:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 1:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 1:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 1:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 1:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 1:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 1:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 1:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 1:22 - Wells of Living Water Commentary