King James Version
Genesis 2:4 in the King James Version says “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the ...” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,”
Genesis 2:4 · KJV
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. created: Heb. created to make
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. there: or, a mist which went up from, etc.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“are the generations”
H8435(plural only) descent, i.e., family; (figuratively) history
“and the heavens”
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
“when they were created”
H1254(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
“in the day”
H3117a 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 asso
“that the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“and the heavens”
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
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