King James Version
Genesis 8:4 in the King James Version says “And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.”
Genesis 8:4 · KJV
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
And the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. continually: Heb. in going and returning
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. decreased: Heb. were in going and decreasing
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
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“rested”
H5117to rest, i.e., settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, l
seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
“on the seventeenth”
H6240ten (only in combination), i.e., -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
“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
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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