Bible Verse Dictionary
Genesis 1:20 - Open
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And God | H430 | אֱלֹהִים |
[Noun Masculine] gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural {thus} especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative |
said | H559 | אָמַר |
[Verb] to say (used with great latitude) |
Let the waters | H4325 | מַיִם |
[Noun Masculine] water; figuratively juice; by euphemism {urine} semen |
bring forth abundantly | H8317 | שָׁרַץ |
[Verb] to {wriggle} that {is} (by implication) swarm or abound |
the moving creature | H8318 | שֶׁרֶץ |
[Noun Masculine] a {swarm} that {is} active mass of minute animals |
that hath life | H5315 | נֶפֶשׁ |
[Noun Feminine] properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) |
and fowl | H5775 | עוֹף |
[Noun Masculine] a bird (as covered with {feathers} or rather as covering with {wings}) often collective |
that may fly | H5774 | עוּף |
[Verb] to cover (with wings or obscurity); hence (as denominative from H5775) to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of swooning) |
above | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
the earth | H776 | אֶרֶץ |
[Noun Feminine] the earth (at {large} or partitively a land) |
in | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
the open | H6440 | פָּנִים |
[Noun Masculine] from 6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ({before } etc.) |
firmament | H7549 | רָקִיעַ |
[Noun Masculine] properly an {expanse} that {is} the firmament or (apparently) visible arch of the sky |
of heaven | H8064 | שָׁמַיִם |
[Noun Masculine] from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds {move} as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.