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Word Study - became - # 1961 - הָיָה - hâyâh
- to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass
- to come about, come to pass
- to come into being, become
DAY ONE: (Ge 1:3-5) Light (Day) verses Darkness (Night)
DAY TWO: (Ge 1:6-8) Heaven versus Earth: Atmosphere ( Firmament, Expanse, Heaven ) which separates waters above it from the waters below it
DAY THREE: (Ge 1:9-13) Filling the earth:
DAY TWO: (Ge 1:6-8) Heaven versus Earth: Atmosphere ( Firmament, Expanse, Heaven ) which separates waters above it from the waters below it
DAY THREE: (Ge 1:9-13) Filling the earth:
- Waters under heaven gathered to one place (Seas) and dry land appear (Earth)
- land bear herb of grass, fruit tree, both with seeds
- Lights in the sky
- Sea creatures
- Fowl in the heavens
- Land creatures
- Man
The Days were Evening and Morning. The Jewish people, based on this, have their day begin at sunset and end at sunset the next day, instead of midnight to midnight.
Word Study - Evening - #6153 - עֶרֶב - ‛ereb
- evening, night, sunset
- evening, sunset
- night
- morning, break of day
- morning
- of end of night
- of coming of daylight
- of coming of sunrise
- of beginning of day
- of bright joy after night of distress (fig.)
- morrow, next day, next morning
- day, time, year
- day (as opposed to night)
- day (24 hour period)
- as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
- as a division of time 1b
- a working day, a day's journey
- days, lifetime (pl.)
- time, period (general)
- year
- temporal references
- today
- yesterday
- tomorrow
KHouse article: http://www.khouse.org/articles/2003/492/
"Evening" and "Morning"?
The Hebrew terms, Erev,and Boker, now refer to "evening" and "morning" but their origins remain obscure. Erev designates obscuration, mixture (increasing entropy). The time when encroaching darkness begins to deny the ability to discern forms, shapes, and identities; thus, it becomes a term for twilight or evening.20 This also marks the duration of impurity, when a ceremonially unclean person became clean again,21 and thus, the beginning of the Hebrew day.
Boker is a designation for becoming discernible, distinguishable, visible; perception of order; relief of obscurity (decreasing entropy). It thus is associated with being able to begin to discern forms, shapes, and distinct identities; breaking forth of light; revealing; hence, denotatively, dawn, morning. (As traditional designations for the Hebrew day, technically it would seem to only designate the nighttime hours, but it is used connotatively for the entire calendar day.)
It is noteworthy that neither of these are recorded on the seventh day, and thus their original significance may have been to designate the increments of creation.
The Hebrew terms, Erev,and Boker, now refer to "evening" and "morning" but their origins remain obscure. Erev designates obscuration, mixture (increasing entropy). The time when encroaching darkness begins to deny the ability to discern forms, shapes, and identities; thus, it becomes a term for twilight or evening.20 This also marks the duration of impurity, when a ceremonially unclean person became clean again,21 and thus, the beginning of the Hebrew day.
Boker is a designation for becoming discernible, distinguishable, visible; perception of order; relief of obscurity (decreasing entropy). It thus is associated with being able to begin to discern forms, shapes, and distinct identities; breaking forth of light; revealing; hence, denotatively, dawn, morning. (As traditional designations for the Hebrew day, technically it would seem to only designate the nighttime hours, but it is used connotatively for the entire calendar day.)
It is noteworthy that neither of these are recorded on the seventh day, and thus their original significance may have been to designate the increments of creation.
| God Separates His Creation To Achieve Order and Fullness | |
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For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. - Exodus 20:11
2 Peter 3:5-6
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
5 For [a]when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
