And God said, Let the earth [land] bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth [land]:
and it was so.
And the earth [land] 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.
And the evening and the morning were
[And there was evening and there was morning] – the third day.
(Genesis 1:11-13 KJV [revisions mine])
From Session 7 of the GENESIS 101 Bible Study workbook
Hebrew Vocabulary Words*
- DASHA’ (H1876) – verb. to sprout shoot, grow green
- DESHE’ (H1877) – noun. grass, new grass, green herb, vegetation, young
- ‘ESEB (H6212) – noun. herb, herbage, grass, green plants
- ZARA’ (H2232) – verb. to sow, scatter seed
- ZERA’ (H2233) – noun. seed, sowing, offspring
- PERIY (H6529) – noun. fruit
- ‘ETS (H6086) – noun. tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows
- MIYN (H4327) – noun. kind, sometimes a species (usually of animals)
- YATSA’ (H3318) – verb. to go out, come out, exit, go forth
- SHELIYSHIY (H7992) – adjective. third, one third, third part, third time
*Definitions are from Brown-Driver-Briggs’ Hebrew-English Lexicon.
Suggested Discussion Starters
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