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Genesis 8:2 KJV
Genesis · chapter 8 · verse 2
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;Genesis 8:2 · King James Version
Genesis 8:2 in context
1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fountainsmaʻyâna fountain , figuratively, a sourceH4599 →
- windowsʼărubbâha latticeH699 →
- stoppedçâkarto shut upH5534 →
- heavenshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- deeptᵉhôwman abyss , especially the deepH8415 →
- raingeshema showerH1653 →
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Here is, I. An act of God's grace: God remembered Noah and every living thing. This is an expression after the manner of men; for not any of his creatures (Luk 12:6), much less any of his people, are forgotten of God, Isa 49:15, Isa 49:16. but, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-3