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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Genesis 8:3

And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. The waters literally went back from off the earth going and returning, with a steady appreciable settling, becoming definitely less at the end of one hundred and fifty days, this number including both the beginning and the end of the Flood.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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 2 Kings 19:37,

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered _ 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1)_ 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6) 4. The sending forth of the dove ...

  • 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

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Genesis 8:1-14. The Diminution of the Waters 1 (P). _God remembered_ The same expression occurs in Genesis 19:29; Genesis 30:22. It is a form of anthropomorphism which is not infrequent in the O.T. an...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART TWENTY-TWO: THE WORLD AFTER THE FLOOD (Genesis 8:1-22; Genesis 9:1-29) 1. _The Subsidence of the Flood_ (Genesis 8:1-14). And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle

  • 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 clause...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:3 retiring; (c-9) Lit. 'returned from the earth going and returning.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 8 THE FLOOD ENDS V1 But God remembered Noah. And God remembered all the animals that were with Noah in the *ark. And God made a wind blow over th...

  • 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. WERE A...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּשֻׁ֧בוּ הַ מַּ֛יִם מֵ עַ֥ל הָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    NOAH LEAVES THE ARK Genesis 8:1 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 remembered Noah.”...

  • 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, an...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    A THANKSGIVING SACRIFICE The flood lasted one year and ten days (Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:14). Noah's first act on the renewed earth was to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving. It could be viewed as a sa...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    And the waters returned, &c. St. Jerome on this passage remarks, "that all waters and torrents repair to the womb of the abyss, through the hidden veins of the earth," and by the abyss understands the...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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 forty day...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, AND 8. Finally we find power and force here below, the result, of the sons of God not keeping their first estate, of apostasy; and God executes judgment...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 the...

  • 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., הזלד...

  • 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 mor...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The waters asswage. 4 The Arke resteth on Ararat. 7 The rauen and the doue. 15 Noah, being commanded, 18 goeth forth of the Arke. 20 He buildeth an Altar, and offereth sacrifice, 21 which God...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD SECTION _The Ark, and the Saved and Renewed Humanity_ GENESIS 8:1-19 1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark; and God made a wind to p...

  • Leslie 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 God re...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CONTINUALLY: _ Heb._ in going and returning...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-3 The whole race of mankind, except Noah and his family, were now dead, so that God's remembering Noah, was the return of his mercy to mankind, of whom he would not make a full end. The demands of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 8:3 waters H4325 receded H7725 (H8799) continually H1980 (H8800) H7725 (H8800) earth H776 end...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CREATOR REMEMBERS HIS CREATURES (GENESIS 8:1) Genesis 8:1 ‘And God (Elohim the Creator) remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, and God made a wi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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, you h...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Waters receding, exit from the ark. Noah's altar. CHARACTERS: Noah and family. CONCLUSION: When judgment days are past, the believer will find himself safely landed in a better world. KEY...

  • 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 is u...

  • 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 remembra...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 8:2 In v. Genesis 8:2 God reverses the process started in Genesis 7:11. The waters both rose and fel

  • The 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 Ararat’],...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 narrative of the F...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The eighth chapter begins with the words, And God remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1), Let me tell you this, God never forgot him. It is important that we realize that in the Bible, there are terms that ar...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    continually. Heb. in going and returning. hundred. Genesis 7:11 Genesis 7:24...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE ASSUAGING OF THE WATERS Genesis 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. There is a striking verse in 2 Peter 3:6, which reads: "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the...

  • 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....

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