Bible Verse Dictionary
Genesis 1:2 - God
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And the earth | H776 | אֶרֶץ |
[Noun Feminine] the earth (at {large} or partitively a land) |
was | H1961 | הָיָה |
[Verb] to {exist} that {is} be or {become} come to pass (always {emphatic} and not a mere copula or auxiliary) |
without form | H8414 | תֹּהוּ |
[Noun Masculine] a desolation (of {surface}) that {is} desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain |
and void | H922 | בֹּהוּ |
[Noun Masculine] a {vacuity} that {is} (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin |
and darkness | H2822 | חֹשֶׁךְ |
[Noun Masculine] the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively {misery} destruction: {death} ignorance: {sorrow} wickedness |
was | H1961 | הָיָה |
[Verb] to {exist} that {is} be or {become} come to pass (always {emphatic} and not a mere copula or auxiliary) |
upon | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
the face | H6440 | פָּנִים |
[Noun Masculine] from 6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ({before } etc.) |
of the deep | H8415 | תְּהוֹם |
[Noun] an abyss (as a surging mass of {water}) especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water supply) |
And the Spirit | H7307 | רוּחַ |
[Noun Feminine] wind; by resemblance {breath} that {is} a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively {life} anger: unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance {spirit} but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions) |
of God | H430 | אֱלֹהִים |
[Noun Masculine] gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural {thus} especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative |
moved | H7363 | רָחַף |
[Verb] to brood; by implication to be relaxed |
upon | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
the face | H6440 | פָּנִים |
[Noun Masculine] from 6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ({before } etc.) |
of the waters | H4325 | מַיִם |
[Noun Masculine] water; figuratively juice; by euphemism {urine} semen |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.