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Genesis 1

Gen. 1:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Let there beq lights
ma'owr (Hebrew #3974)
also (in plural) feminine mpowrah {meh-o-raw'}; or morah {meh-o-raw'}; from 215; properly, a luminous body or luminary, i.e. (abstractly) light (as an element): figuratively, brightness, i.e.cheerfulness; specifically, a chandelier
KJV usage: bright, light.
Pronounce: maw-ore'
Origin: or maor {maw-ore'}
in the firmament
raqiya` (Hebrew #7549)
properly, an expanse, i.e. the firmament or (apparently) visible arch of the sky
KJV usage: firmament.
Pronounce: raw-kee'-ah
Origin: from 7554
of the heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
to divide
badal (Hebrew #914)
to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)
KJV usage: (make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate (self, -ation), sever (out), X utterly.
Pronounce: baw-dal'
Origin: a primitive root
νthe day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
from the night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
; and let them be for signs
'owth (Hebrew #226)
a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.
KJV usage: mark, miracle, (en-)sign, token.
Pronounce: oth
Origin: probably from 225 (in the sense of appearing)
, andr for seasons
mow`ed (Hebrew #4150)
or (feminine) moweadah (2 Chronicles 8:13) {mo-aw-daw'}; from 3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand)
KJV usage: appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).
Pronounce: mo-ade'
Origin: or moled {mo-ade'}
, and for days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
, and years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
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Psa. 136:7• 7To him that made great lights, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever; (Psa. 136:7)
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between the day and between the night.
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Psa. 104:19• 19He made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth its going down. (Psa. 104:19)

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Cross References

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Let there.
Deut. 4:19• 19and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, the whole host of heaven, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven. (Deut. 4:19)
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Job 25:3,5• 3Is there any number of his troops? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
 5Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight: (Job 25:3,5)
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Job 38:12‑14• 12Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,
 13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked might be shaken out of it?
 14It is changed like the signet-clay; and all things stand forth as in a garment: (Job 38:12‑14)
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Psa. 8:3‑4• 3When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;
 4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psa. 8:3‑4)
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Psa. 19:1‑6• 1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of *God; and the expanse sheweth the work of his hands.
 2Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
 3There is no speech and there are no words, yet their voice is heard.
 4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their language to the extremity of the world. In them hath he set a tent for the sun,
 5And he is as a bridegroom going forth from his chamber; he rejoiceth as a strong man to run the race.
 6His going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit unto the ends of it; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. (Psa. 19:1‑6)
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Psa. 74:16‑17• 16The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:
 17*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter--*thou* didst form them. (Psa. 74:16‑17)
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Psa. 104:19‑20• 19He made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth its going down.
 20Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth: (Psa. 104:19‑20)
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Psa. 119:91• 91By thine ordinances they stand this day; for all things are thy servants. (Psa. 119:91)
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Psa. 136:7‑9• 7To him that made great lights, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever;
 8The sun for rule over the day, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever,
 9The moon and stars for rule over the night, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever: (Psa. 136:7‑9)
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Psa. 148:3,6• 3Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all ye stars of light.
 6And he established them for ever and ever; he made for them a statute which shall not pass. (Psa. 148:3,6)
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Isa. 40:26• 26Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who hath created these things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of power, not one faileth. (Isa. 40:26)
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Jer. 31:35• 35Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar,--Jehovah of hosts is his name: (Jer. 31:35)
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Jer. 33:20,25• 20Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant in respect of the day, and my covenant in respect of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,
 25Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth, (Jer. 33:20,25)
lights.Or, rather, luminaries or light-bearers; being a different world from that rendered light, in ver. 3, the day from the night.between the day and between the night.
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Gen. 8:22• 22Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. (Gen. 8:22)
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Gen. 9:13• 13I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. (Gen. 9:13)
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Job 3:9• 9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn: (Job 3:9)
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Job 38:31‑32• 31Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
 32Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons? (Job 38:31‑32)
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Psa. 81:3• 3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day: (Psa. 81:3)
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Ezek. 32:7‑8• 7And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
 8All the bright lights of the heavens will I make black over thee, and bring darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 32:7‑8)
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Ezek. 46:1,6• 1Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working-days; but on the sabbath-day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
 6And on the day of the new moon, a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. (Ezek. 46:1,6)
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Joel 2:10,30‑31• 10The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
 30And I will shew wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
 31The sun shall be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come. (Joel 2:10,30‑31)
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Joel 3:15• 15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. (Joel 3:15)
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Amos 5:8• 8seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name. (Amos 5:8)
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Amos 8:9• 9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the land in the clear day. (Amos 8:9)
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Matt. 2:2• 2Where is the king of the Jews that has been born? for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to do him homage. (Matt. 2:2)
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Matt. 16:2‑3• 2But he answering said to them, When evening is come, ye say, Fine weather, for the sky is red;
 3and in the morning, A storm to-day, for the sky is red and lowering; ye know how to discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot the signs of the times. (Matt. 16:2‑3)
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Matt. 24:29• 29But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. (Matt. 24:29)
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Mark 13:24• 24But in those days, after that distress, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give its light; (Mark 13:24)
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Luke 21:25‑26• 25And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roar of the sea and rolling waves,
 26men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. (Luke 21:25‑26)
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Luke 23:45• 45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple rent in the midst. (Luke 23:45)
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Acts 2:19‑20• 19And I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
 20the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of the Lord come. (Acts 2:19‑20)
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Rev. 6:12• 12And I saw when it opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as hair sackcloth, and the whole moon became as blood, (Rev. 6:12)
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Rev. 8:12• 12And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them should be darkened, and that the day should not appear for the third part of it, and the night the same. (Rev. 8:12)
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Rev. 9:2• 2And it opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit. (Rev. 9:2)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And God said, Let there be lightsd in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "light-bearers."