And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were
[And there was evening and there was morning] – the first day.
(Genesis 1:3-5 KJV [revision mine])
From Session 4 of the GENESIS 101 Bible Study workbook
Hebrew Vocabulary Words*
- AMAR (H559) – verb. to say, speak, utter
- OR (H216) – noun. light
- RA’AH (H7200) – verb. to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider
- KIY (H3588) – conjunction. that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since
- TOB (H2896) – 1) good, pleasant, agreeable (adjective); 2) a good thing, benefit, welfare (noun masculine)
- BADAL (H914) – verb. to divide, separate
- BEYN (H996) – preposition. between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between
- QARA (H7121) – verb. to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim
- YOM (H3117) – noun. day, time, year
- LAYIL/LEYL/LAYELAH (H3915) – noun. night
- ‘EREB (H6153) – noun. evening, night, sunset
- BOQER (H1242) – noun. morning, break of day
- ‘ECHAD (H259) – adjective. one (number)
*Definitions are from Brown-Driver-Briggs’ Hebrew-English Lexicon.
Suggested Discussion Starters
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