And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth [Land];
and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
and God saw that it was good.
(Genesis 1:9-10 KJV [revision mine])
From Session 6 of the GENESIS 101 Bible Study workbook
Hebrew Vocabulary Words*
- QAVAH (H6960) – verb. 1) to wait, look for, hope, expect; 2) to collect, bind together
- L’E/EL (H413) – preposition. to, toward, unto (of motion)
- MAQOM/MEQOMAH (H4725) – noun. standing place, place
- YABBASAH (H3004) – noun. dry land, dry ground
- MIQVEH (H4723) – noun. 1) hope; 2) collection, collected mass
- YAM (H3220) – noun. sea
*Definitions are from Brown-Driver-Briggs’ Hebrew-English Lexicon.
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