創世記 1:20-21 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:21

And God created ( bara , is in Genesis 1:1 , to indicate the introduction of an absolutely new thing, viz; the principle of animal life) great whales . Tanninim , from tanan ; Greek, τει ì νω ; Latin, tendo ; Sansc; tan , to stretch. These were the first of the two classes into which the sheretzim of the previous verse were divided. The word is used of serpents ( Exodus 7:9 ; Deuteronomy 32:33 ; Psalms 91:13 ; Jeremiah 51:34 ), of the crocodile ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:21

Day six . Like day three, this is distinguished by a double creative act, the production of the higher or land animals and the creation of man, of the latter of which it is perhaps permissible to see a mute prediction in the vegetation which closed the first half of the creative week. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind . In these words the land animals are generically characterized as nephesh chayyah , or animated beings; in the terms... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 1:20-23

- VII. The Fifth Day20. שׁרץ shārats, “crawl, teem, swarm, abound.” An intransitive verb, admitting, however, an objective noun of its own or a like signification.נפשׁ nephesh, “breath, soul, self.” This noun is derived from a root signifying to breathe. Its concrete meaning is, therefore, “that which breathes,” and consequently has a body, without which there can be no breathing; hence, “a breathing body,” and even a body that once had breath Numbers 6:6. As breath is the accompaniment and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 1:20

Genesis 1:20. The moving creature that hath life Endued with self-motion and animal life. How much soever we may be astonished at the stupendous vastness and magnificence of inanimate matter, the least piece that is animated and has life, is still more admirable. But who can conceive the nature of life? We see it daily around us, but cannot comprehend it! We observe that it enables millions and millions of creatures to act, as it were, of themselves, and to seek and obtain such... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 1:21

Genesis 1:21. Great whales The Hebrew word here rendered whales is sometimes put to signify great dragons of the wilderness; (see Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 14:6; Malachi 1:3;) but it undoubtedly here means some very large inhabitants of the waters, and probably what we call whales, whose astonishing bulk and prodigious strength are amazing proofs of the power and glory of the Creator. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:1-31

THE STORY OF CREATIONThe Bible and scienceModern science has revealed so much about the wonders and the size of the physical universe that human beings may seem almost to be nothing. The Bible takes a different view. Human beings are its main concern, for they alone are made in God’s image. The story of creation is but an introduction to the story of God’s dealings with the human race. The Bible demonstrates this order of importance from the outset by fitting the story of creation into a mere... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 1:20

life = soul. Hebrew. nephesh, as in verses: Genesis 1:21 , Genesis 1:24 , Genesis 1:30 ; Genesis 2:7 , Genesis 2:19 ; Genesis 9:4 , Genesis 9:5 , Genesis 9:5 , Genesis 9:10 , Genesis 9:12 , Genesis 9:15 , Genesis 9:16 . Leviticus 11:46 , &c. See App-13 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 1:21

whales = great sea-creatures. creature = soul. Hebrew. nephesh. Compare Genesis 1:20 and App-13 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:20-23

THE FIFTH DAY"And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the firmament of heaven. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening and there... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:20

Genesis 1:20. And God said, Let the waters, &c.— The formation of things inanimate being completed, the all-wise Creator proceeds, from the most noble of these, the heavenly bodies, to those which are next in degree, the least noble of the animate creation, namely, the inhabitants of the waters. Houbigant justly prefers the English translation here to all those which render the original by the word reptilia, reptiles, or creeping things, under which denomination, certainly, neither the... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 1:20-23

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 1:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 1:21

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:1-31

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 1:20

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 1:21

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:20-23

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:20

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