Genesis 1:8
Context1:8 God called the expanse “sky.” 1 There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 2:13
Context2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through 2 the entire land of Cush. 3
Genesis 8:14
Context8:14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth 4 was dry.
Genesis 22:15
Context22:15 The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven
1 tn Though the Hebrew word can mean “heaven,” it refers in this context to “the sky.”
2 tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”
3 sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.
4 tn In v. 13 the ground (הָאֲדָמָה, ha’adamah) is dry; now the earth (הָאָרֶץ, ha’arets) is dry.