And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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Gill's Exposition
And God called the dry land earth,.... The whole chaos, that was a turbid fluid, a mixture of earth and water, a rude unformed mass of matter, was called earth before; but now that part of the…
- V. The Third Day 9. קוה qāvâh “turn, bind, gather, expect.” יבשׁה yabāshâh “the dry, the ground.” יבשׁ yabēsh, “be dry.” בושׁ bôsh, “be abashed.” 11. דשׁא deshe', “green thing, grass.” עשׂב…
Adam Clarke
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas - These two constitute what is called the terraqueous globe, in which the earth and the water exist in a most…
The third day's work is related in these verses - the forming of the sea and the dry land, and the making of the earth fruitful. Hitherto the power of the Creator had been exerted and employed about…
The Third Day Two Creative Acts. (1) The Separation of Sea and Earth (Gen 1:9-10). (2) The Creation of the Vegetable World (Gen 1:11-13)
9. Let the waters … appear In this verse the dry land is…