Genesis 8:14

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
second	הַשֵּׁנִ֔י ha.she.Ni	H8145	properly · definite article + ordinal number, masculine singular absolute
month	וּבַחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ u.va.Cho.desh	H2320	the new moon · conjunction + preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
seven	בְּשִׁבְעָ֧ה be.shiv.'Ah	H7651	seven (as the sacred full one) · preposition + cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
twentieth	וְעֶשְׂרִ֛ים ve.'es.Rim	H6242	twenty · conjunction + cardinal number, masculine plural absolute
day	י֖וֹם Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
month	לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ la.Cho.desh	H2320	the new moon · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
earth	הָאָֽרֶץ ha.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
dried	יָבְשָׁ֖ה ya.ve.Shah	H3001	to be ashamed · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular

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Cross-references

Genesis 7:13-14 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with th…
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:13-14

Here is, 1. The ground dry (Gen 8:13), that is, all the water carried off it, which, upon the first day of the first month (a joyful new-year's-day it was), Noah was himself an eye-witness of. He removed the covering of the ark, not the whole covering, but so much as would suffice to give him a prospect of the earth about it; and a most comfortable prospect he had. For behold, behold and wonder, the face of the ground was dry. Note, (1.) It is a great mercy to see ground about us. Noah was more sensible of it than we are; for mercies restored are much more affecting than mercies continued. (2.) The divine power which now renewed the face of the earth can renew the face of an afflicted troubl…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 8:13

Noah removed the covering of the ark--probably only as much of it as would afford him a prospect of the earth around. Yet for about two months he never stirred from his appointed abode till he had received the express permission of God. We should watch the leading of Providence to direct us in every step of the journey of life.

Adam Clarke on Genesis 8:14

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day - From this it appears that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year, or three hundred and sixty-five days; for he entered the ark the 17th day of the second month, in the six hundredth year of his life, Gen 7:11, Gen 7:13, and continued in it till the 27th day of the second month, in the six hundredth and first year of his life, as we see above. The months of the ancient Hebrews were lunar; the first six consisted of thirty days each, the latter six of twenty-nine; the whole twelve months making three hundred and fifty-four days: add to this eleven days, (for though he entered the ark the preceding year on the seventeenth day of the s…

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John Gill on Genesis 8:14

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month,.... This was the month Marchesvan, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our October, and part of our November; though according to Bishop Usher (y), this day was Friday the eighteenth of December, A. M. 1657; it was on the seventeenth of this month that Noah went into the ark, Genesis 7:11 so that be was in it twelve months and ten days, according to a solar year; but if the reckoning is made according to Jewish months, six of which consisted of thirty days, and six of twenty nine only, then the twelve months made but three hundred and fifty four days, add to which eleven days to the twenty seventh, fully en…

The Church Fathers

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried. It was stated above that the surface of the ground was dried up in the beginning of the first month; and now, in the second month, nearly completed, it is described as dry because then the ground was dried on the surface with growing grass, so that it could revive and produce anew the grass that the water had consumed. But now it is dried even inwardly to such an extent that it could bear the footsteps of those walking on it, and covered with so many flowering grasses that it was also suitable for the pasturing of animals and beasts of burden.
— Bede, Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron)

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Dictionary and topics

Deluge — The name given to Noah’s flood, the history of which is recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. It began in the year 2516 B.C., and continued twelve lunar months and ten days, or exactly one solar year. The cause…
Dove — In their wild state doves generally build their nests in the clefts of rocks, but when domesticated “dove-cots” are prepared for them (Cant. 2:14; Jer. 48:28; Isa. 60:8). The dove was placed on the…

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Genesis 8:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:13-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 8:13

Adam Clarke on Genesis 8:14

John Gill on Genesis 8:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Genesis 8:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:13-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 8:13

Adam Clarke on Genesis 8:14

John Gill on Genesis 8:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Genesis 8:6-14

Keil & Delitzsch on Genesis 8:13-19

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 8:14

Rashi on Genesis 8:14