Gênesis 8:1-10:32 NVT

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 8:1

God = Hebrew. 'Elohim = the Creator, because every living creature is included. Compare Genesis 7:16 . remembered. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. wind. Hebrew. ruach. See App-9 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 8:1

"And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the water assuaged."God here began to dismantle the prevailing destruction that had been visited upon the whole world, for He had not forgotten His beloved human creation. The loving pity of the Father is the only thing that prevented the total annihilation of mankind, and that merciful concern is evident in God's remembering Noah.The great point of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 8:1

Genesis 8:1. God remembered Noah—and made a wind to pass, &c.— God had compassion upon Noah in his melancholy confinement: and this stupendous end of his providence being answered by the destruction of the iniquitous generation, which brought on this dissolution of the earth, he was pleased to make use of the same natural means for the separation of the waters again to their appointed places as he used at the beginning of the creation: he caused the wind or air to operate as at first in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 8:1

1. And God remembered Noah—The divine purpose in this awful dispensation had been accomplished, and the world had undergone those changes necessary to fit it for becoming the residence of man under a new economy of Providence. and every living thing . . . in the ark—a beautiful illustration of :-. and God made a wind to pass over the earth—Though the divine will could have dried up the liquid mass in an instant, the agency of a wind was employed ( :-) —probably a hot wind, which, by rapid... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 8:1-5

When Moses wrote that God remembered someone (Genesis 8:1), he meant God extended mercy to him or her by delivering that person from death (here; cf. Genesis 19:29) or from barrenness (Genesis 30:22). [Note: Hamilton, p. 299.] God’s rescue of Noah foreshadows His deliverance of Israel in the Exodus (cf. Genesis 8:13-14 and Exodus 2:24; Exodus 14:21). [Note: Sailhamer, The Pentateuch . . ., p. 127; idem, "Genesis," p. 89.] "’Ararat,’ known as ancient Urartu in Assyrian records, was an extensive... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 8:1-22

The Flood (continued)4. The mountains of Ararat] Ararat is the Assyrian ’Urardhu,’ the country round Lake Van, in what is now called Armenia; but the word also signifies ’highlands,’ and perhaps it is a general expression for the hilly country which lay to the N. of Assyria. Mt. Masis, now called Mt. Ararat (a peak 17,000 ft. high), is not meant here. 11. The olive leaf indicated that the tree was above water, and as the olive does not grow at a great elevation, the inference was that the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 8:1

VIII.(1) God.—Elohim. On the Jehovistic theory, one would have expected Jehovah here. (See Excursus.)Every living thing.—See Note on Genesis 7:14.The waters asswaged.—Heb., became still. It is plain from this that the “strength” of the waters, described in Genesis 7:24, has reference to the violent currents, which still existed up to the end of the one hundred and fiftieth day, after which they ceased.A wind (comp. the creative wind in Genesis 1:2) began to blow as soon as the rains ceased, or... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Genesis 8:1-22

Noah Saved in the Ark Genesis 8:1-22 Traditions of the Flood linger among all branches of the human race except the black. Remember from the Greek story of Deucalion, when Zeus had resolved to destroy mankind, after the treatment he had received from Lycaon, Deucalion built an ark in which he and his wife Pyrrha floated during the nine days' flood which destroyed Greece. When the waters subsided, Deucalion's ark rested on Mount Parnassus. Ten buildings the size of Solomon's temple could have... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:1-22

THE FLOODGenesis 5:1-32; Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22; Genesis 9:1-29THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was the Flood. There is every reason to believe that this catastrophe was co-extensive with the human population of the world. In every branch of the human family traditions of the event are found. These traditions need not be recited, though some of them bear a remarkable likeness to the Biblical story, while others... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Genesis 8:1-22

CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1-3 ) 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4-5 ) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6-7 ) 4. The sending forth of the dove (Genesis 8:8-12 ) 5. The waters dried up (Genesis 8:13-14 ) 6. The command to leave the ark (Genesis 8:15-17 ) 7. Noah’s obedience (Genesis 8:18-19 ) 8. The altar and the covenant (Genesis 8:20-22 ) Especially instructive are Genesis 8:6-12 in our chapter. Noah opened the window at the end of forty days, and... read more