The *ark was a very big box that floated on water. It was like a ship. We do not know what kind of wood ‘gopher wood’ was. Bitumen is a black substance that people find in the ground. People put it on cracks in ships so that the ships do not leak.
Verse Genesis 6:14. _MAKE THEE AN ARK_] תבת _tebath_, a word which is used only to express _this vessel_, and that in which Moses was preserved, Exodus 2:3; Exodus 2:5. It signifies no more than our...
- Section VI - The Deluge - XXIII. The Ark 9. דור _dôr_ “age, time from birth to death,” applied either to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running parallel with some leading individua...
IV. THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH CHAPTER 6:9-22 Before the Flood _ 1. Noah walked with God (Genesis 6:9)_ 2. The earth filled with violence (Genesis 6:11) 3. The building of the ark commanded (Genesis...
THE FLOOD. This section has been very skilfully composed from both J and P. There are numerous repetitions: Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 6:12 f.; Genesis 7:7 and...
J gives no explanation of the universal wickedness which caused God to repent man's creation, but the previous narrative has prepared for it. Probably, however, the story, which begins abruptly, has l...
III. AN ARK OF SAFETY. 14. MAKE THEE AN ARK. The term here used is not that for an ordinary ship, but rather for. vessel without mast or rudder, being intended only for. floating structure, not for...
ARK. Hebrew. _tebah =_. floating [building] (not _'aron,_. chest). So in Exodus 2:2; Exodus 2:3. OF. Genitive of material. App-17. ROOMS. nests. PITCH IT. coat it. Hebrew. _kaphar,_ to cover: the on...
_an ark_ The word here used, _têbâh_, is only found in this passage and in Exodus 2:3-5. It is of foreign origin; according to some, an Egyptian word; according to others, derived from the Assyrian. L...
MAKE THEE AN ARK— תבת _tebat, an ark,_ or _hollow vessel:_ it is used only on this occasion, and for the vessel into which Moses was put, Exodus 2:2. This ark was constructed according to the divine d...
_MAKE THEE AN ARK OF GOPHER WOOD; ROOMS SHALT THOU MAKE IN THE ARK, AND SHALT PITCH IT WITHIN AND WITHOUT WITH PITCH._ Make thee an ark of gopher wood - ark х_ TEEBAAH_ (H8392) - old Hebrew or Chalda...
THE FLOOD This narrative records the judgment of God upon the sinful forefathers of mankind, and His preservation of a righteous family, in whom the divine purposes for men might be carried out. The s...
MAKE THEE AN ARK. — _Têbâh,_ a word so archaic that scholars neither know its derivation, nor even to what language it belongs. It is certain, however, that it was an oblong box, not capable of sailin...
עֲשֵׂ֤ה לְךָ֙ תֵּבַ֣ת עֲצֵי ־גֹ֔פֶר קִנִּ֖ים...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
NOAH BUILDS THE ARK Genesis 6:9 Human sin had reached an awful climax. Sooner or later its results must have swept the human race from the earth, as smallpox will slay every native on some infected i...
With the passing of the centuries, the degeneration of the individual and the family became that of society. There had been intermixture between the descendants of Cain and those of Seth, resulting in...
GOD SAVED NOAH The one righteous man on earth, Noah, and his family were saved by God (Genesis 6:8). Noah was "just" in that he lived in accord with God's will. He was "perfect," or upright, in that h...
Timber planks. Hebrew, "gopher wood," which is no where else mentioned in Scripture. It was probably a sort of wood full of rosin, and being besmeared with something like our pitch, was capable of res...
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...
14._Make thee an ark of gopher wood_. Here follows the command to build the ark, in which God wonderfully proved the faith and obedience of his servant. Concerning its structure, there is no reason wh...
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...
MAKE THEE AN ARK OF GOPHER WOOD,.... It is not called a ship, for it was not made for sailing to any distant parts, but an ark or chest, being like one, flat bottomed, and ridged and sloping upwards,...
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. Ver. 14. _Make thee an ark._] Or chest, or coffin. And indeed by the description h...
Gen. 6:14. "Make thee an ark of gopher wood." The word in the Hebrew language seems to imply that the wood was of a bituminous or pitchy nature, and consequently more capable of resisting wet or moist...
1 The wickednesse of the world, which prouoked Gods wrath, and caused the Flood. 8 Noah findeth grace. 13 The order, forme, and end of the Arke. 1 AND it came to passe, when men began to multiply o...
The Command to Build and Equip the Ark...
Make thee an ark of gopher-wood. Noah and his family alone were exempted from the general destruction. For his preservation he was to build an ark, or ship of refuge, not so much for purposes of navig...
THIRD PART THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD’S JUDGMENT AND OF THE WORLD’S RENEWING BY MEANS OF THE FLOOD. THE FLOOD AND THE DROWNED RACE. THE ARK AND THE SAVED HUMANITY. (THE ARK AS A TYPE OF THE PIOUS FAMIL...
MAN'S DEGRADATION TO CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE It was not long before mankind multiplied greatly on earth, and the dreadful effects of sin multiplied with them. this is emphasized in the corrupt mixture...
ROOMS: _ Heb._ nests...
12-21 God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Psalms 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply...
AN ARK; a little ship made in the form of an ark or chest, but probably sloping at the bottom for the convenience of navigation, as it was for another reason sloping at the top. GOPHER WOOD: this word...
Genesis 9:1-29 We have, now, arrived at a deeply-important and strongly-marked division of our book. Enoch has passed off the scene. His walk, as a stranger on earth, has terminated in his translation...
Genesis 6:14 Make H6213 (H8798) ark H8392 gopherwood H1613 H6086 make H6213 (H8799) rooms H7064 in...
THE COMMAND TO PREPARE FOR THE FLOOD (GENESIS 6:14) Genesis 6:14 ‘Make yourself an ark of gopher wood, make rooms (or alternatively ‘reeds' - which involves the same consonants, but different vowel s...
ARK "Ark": type of Christ as the refuge of His people from judgment (Hebrews 11:7). In strictness of application this speaks of the preservation through the "great tribulation" (Matthew 24:21); (Matt...
Gen. 6-7 A long period elapsed between the commencement of the building of the ark and the actual flood. During that period we notice: (1) the strength of Noah's faith. God has told him of a deluge of...
CONTENTS: Flood announced. Compromise of sons of God with daughters of men. CHARACTERS: Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth. CONCLUSION: The true believer can float in peace on the very waters by which the wic...
Genesis 6:2. _Sons of God._ Some understand this expression of Seth's sons, who intermarried with Cain's daughters, but assign no reason for their being called the _daughters of men._ Others understan...
_Make thee an ark of gopher wood_ NOAH AND THE ARK Sometimes God seems to create a colossal figure in the moral world for after ages to gaze at and pattern by, as the sculptor chisels a statue of he...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 6:9 Noah’s Descendants. Chapters Genesis 6:1 describe a flood that leads to a renewal of the earth—a reminder of the creation account of...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 6:14. Gopher wood.] Probably, “cypress” (Conant, Davies); “pitch-trees, resinous trees” (Gesenius); “a hard, strong tree, precise kind unknown” (Fürst).— GENESIS 6:18. ESTABL...
§ 4. THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH (CH. 6:9-9:29). EXPOSITION GENESIS 6:9 THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH. "Novi capitis initium = "haec est historia Noachi (Rosenmüller; cf. Genesis 5:1). Noah
Chapter six. It came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took...
A.M. 1536. B.C. 2468. Make. Matthew 24:38 Luke 17:27 1 Peter 3:20 rooms. Heb. nests. shalt pitch. Exodus 2:3...
NOAH AND THE ARK Genesis 6:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a verse in the New Testament which reads: "As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." 1. ONE CANNOT BUT MARVE...
I will destroy them with the earth, but make thee an ark — I will take care to preserve thee alive. This ark was like the hulk of a ship, fitted not to sail upon the waters, but to float waiting for t...
FF— How could Noah’s ark hold hundreds of thousands of species? PROBLEM: The Bible says Noah’s ark was only 45 feet high, 75 feet wide, and 450 feet long (Genesis 6:15, NIV). Noah was told to take two...