King James Version
Genesis 1:15 in the King James Version says “And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.”
Genesis 1:15 · KJV
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: the day: Heb. between the day and between the night
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. to rule the day: Heb. for the rule of the day, etc.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“And let them be for lights”
H3974properly, a luminous body or luminary, i.e., (abstractly) light (as an element); figuratively, brightness, i.e.,cheerfulness; specifically, a chandeli
“in the firmament”
H7549properly, an expanse, i.e., the firmament or (apparently) visible arch of the sky
“of the heaven”
H8064the 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 r
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
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