Genesis 9:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

fear... dread. Figure of speech Synonymia.

beast. living thing, as in Genesis 3:1.

earth. Hebrew. 'adhamah = the ground.

Genesis 9:2

2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.