Passage Research
Genesis 7 — Sermon Preparation
Noah's family and pairs of every creature board the ark; rain falls forty days and the floodwaters cover the earth. Below is a research summary for Genesis 7, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 11
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Genesis 7 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נֹחַ | Nôach | H5146 | 12 | Noach |
| תֵּבָה | têbâh | H8392 | 8 | box |
| מַיִם | mayim | H4325 | 9 | water, juice |
| בְּהֵמָה | bᵉhêmâh | H929 | 7 | dumb, animal |
| שֶׁבַע | shebaʻ | H7651 | 7 | seven, full |
| עוֹף | ʻôwph | H5775 | 5 | bird |
| מַבּוּל | mabbûwl | H3999 | 4 | deluge |
How preachers through history handled this text
11 public-domain excerpts on Genesis 7, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“All the men, women, and children, that were in the world, excepting those in the ark, died. We may easily imagine what terror seized them. Our Saviour tells us, that till the very day that the flood came, they were eating and drinking, Lu 17:26, 27; they were deaf and blind to all Divine warnings. In this posture death surprised them. They were convinced of their folly when it was too late. We may suppose they tried all ways and means possible to save themselves, but all in vain. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Genesis 7:21–35 (Public Domain)
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