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Genesis 1:10 KJV
Genesis · chapter 1 · verse 10
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.Genesis 1:10 · King James Version
Genesis 1:10 in context
8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- togethermiqvehsomething waited forH4723 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- watersmayimwaterH4325 →
- Earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- Seasyâma sea or large body of waterH3220 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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The third day's work is related in these verses - the forming of the sea and the dry land, and the making of the earth fruitful. Hitherto the power of the Creator had been exerted and employed about the upper part of the visible word;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-13