Genesis 8:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the waters returned from off the earth continually:a and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. ”

Genesis 8:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- The Land Was Dried 1. שׁכך shākak “stoop, assuage.” 3. חסר chāsar “want, fail, be abated.” 4. אררט 'ărārāṭ , “Ararat,” a land forming part of Armenia. It is mentioned in...
Genesis 8:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The mention of the rain ( Genesis 8:2 b ) comes from J, and since Genesis 8:3 b with its dating belongs to P, Genesis 8:3 a may be assigned to J. With Genesis 8:6 we resume J's story; aft...
Genesis 8:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. And after the end of the hundred and fifty days. Some think that the whole time, from the beginning of the deluge to the abatement of the waters, is here noted; and thus they include the f...
Genesis 8:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Genesis 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. Returned ... continually - literally, going and returning. The...
Genesis 8:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The waters returned from off the earth. — This backward motion of the waters also seems to indicate that a vast wave from the sea had swept over the land, in addition to the forty days of rain. W...
Genesis 8:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1-32 ; Genesis 6:1-22 ; Genesis 7:1-24 ; Genesis 8:1-22 ; Genesis 9:1-29 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was t...
Genesis 8:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Noah Leaves the Ark Genesis 8:1-22 Traditions of the Flood are found in every country, from the tablets of Babylon to the rude carvings of the Aztecs, proving man's common origin. “God remember...
Genesis 8:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Upborne on the billows of judgment, the Ark rode securely, holding within it the nucleus of a new departure in human history. When the work of judgment was fully accomplished, the waters decreased, a...
Genesis 8:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the waters returned from off the earth continually ,.... Or "going and returning" s; they went off from the earth, and returned to their proper places appointed for them; some were dried up by t...
Genesis 8:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. Ver. 3. And the waters returned continually. ] Or, hastily (Heb., הז...
Genesis 8:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The waters returned from off the earth continually Hebrews they were going and returning; a gradual departure. The heat of the sun exhaled much, and perhaps the subterraneous caverns soaked in mo...
Genesis 8:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

A RENEWED EARTH The five months of floating on a shoreless sea would seem interminable to Noah and his family, and it can be well imagined that they would feel that God had forgotten them. "But Go...
Genesis 8:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Earth Becomes Dry. B. C. 2349. 1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, an...
Genesis 8:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Genesis 8:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Creator Remembers His Creatures ( Genesis 8:1-3 ) Genesis 8:1-3 ‘And God (Elohim the Creator) remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, and G...
Genesis 8:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 8:4 . Ararat] “A region nearly in the middle of Armenia, between the Araxes and the lakes Van and Urumia ( 2 Kings 19:37 , Isaiah 37:38 : [‘land of Armenia,’ lit. ‘of...
Genesis 8:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 8:1 . And God remembered Noah, Noah had been shut up in the ark for many a day, and at the right time God thought of him, practically thought of him, and came to visit him. Dear heart, yo...
Genesis 8:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 8:3 . The waters returned from off the earth continually. The Hebrew, חלוךְ ושׁוב cha-loveck ve-shou. Montanus renders eundo et redeundo, the going and coming of the waters. The word i...
Genesis 8:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

The waters assuaged The gradual cessation of Divine retribution I. THAT IT IS MARKED BY A RICH MANIFESTATION OF DIVINE MERCY TO THOSE WHO HAVE SURVIVED THE TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION. 1. God’s rem...
Genesis 8:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 8:1 And God . Elohim, i.e. God in his most universal relation to his creatures. The supposition of two different accounts or histories being intermingled in the narrat...
Genesis 8:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Flood Subsides
Genesis 8:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

continually. Heb. in going and returning. hundred. Genesis 7:11 Genesis 7:24
Genesis 8:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Assuaging of the Waters Genesis 8:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. There is a striking verse in 2 Peter 3:6-7 , which reads: "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, peris...
Genesis 8:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The waters returned from off the earth continually — Heb. they were going and returning; a gradual departure. The heat of the sun exhaled much, and perhaps the subterraneous caverns soaked in more....

Genesis 8:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 8:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 8:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 8:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 8:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 8:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 8:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 8:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 8:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 8:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 8:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 8:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 8:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 8:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 8:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Genesis 8:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes