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Genesis 8:22

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed [time] and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Hereafter seede time ? haruest, ? colde and heate, and sommer and winter, and day and night shal not cease, so long as ye earth remaineth.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— While the earth remaineth, seed-time and haruest, and cold, and heat, and Summer, and Winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— From henceforth, while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
While x5750
(5750) Complement
עוֹד
`owd
{ode}
From H5749; properly iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more.
the earth 776
{0776} Prime
אֶרֶץ
'erets
{eh'-rets}
From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land).
remaineth, 3117
{3117} Prime
יוֹם
yowm
{yome}
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially).
x3605
(3605) Complement
כֹּל
kol
{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
seedtime 2233
{2233} Prime
זֶרַע
zera`
{zeh'-rah}
From H2232; seed; figuratively fruit, plant, sowing time, posterity.
and harvest, 7105
{7105} Prime
קָצִיר
qatsiyr
{kaw-tseer'}
From H7114; severed, that is, harvest (as reaped), the crop, the time, the reaper, or figuratively; also a limb (of a tree, or simply foliage).
and cold 7120
{7120} Prime
קֹר
qor
{kore}
From the same as H7119; cold.
and heat, 2527
{2527} Prime
חֹם
chom
{khome}
From H2552; heat.
and summer 7019
{7019} Prime
קַיִץ
qayits
{kah'-yits}
From H6972; harvest (as the crop), whether the product (grain or fruit) or the (dry) season.
and winter, 2779
{2779} Prime
חֹרֶף
choreph
{kho'-ref}
From H2778; properly the crop gathered, that is, (by implication) the autumn (and winter) season; figuratively ripeness of age.
and day 3117
{3117} Prime
יוֹם
yowm
{yome}
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially).
and night 3915
{3915} Prime
לַיִל
layil
{lah'-yil}
From the same as H3883; properly a twist (away of the light), that is, night; figuratively adversity.
shall not x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
cease. 7673
{7673} Prime
שָׁבַת
shabath
{shaw-bath'}
A primitive root; to repose, that is, desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causatively, figuratively or specifically).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Genesis 8:22

_ _ While the earth remaineth — The consummation, as intimated in 2 Peter 3:7, does not frustrate a promise which held good only during the continuance of that system. There will be no flood between this and that day, when the earth therein shall be burnt up [Chalmers].

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Genesis 8:20-22.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Genesis 8:22

While the earth remaineth, (l) seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

(l) The order of nature destroyed by the flood, is restored by God's promise.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
While the earth remaineth:
Heb. as yet all the days of the earth,
Isaiah 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

seedtime:
Most of the European nations divide the year into four distinct parts, called quarters or seasons; but there are six divisions in the text, which obtained in Palestine among the Hebrews, and exist among the Arabs to the present day. According to this gracious promise, the heavenly bodies have preserved their courses, the seasons their successions, and the earth its increase for the use of man.
Genesis 45:6 For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall] neither [be] earing nor harvest.
Exodus 34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Psalms 74:16-17 The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. ... Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Song of Songs 2:11-12 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone; ... The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
Isaiah 54:9 For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Jeremiah 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

day:

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:
Jeremiah 33:20-26 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; ... Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Gn 45:6. Ex 34:21. Ps 74:16. So 2:11. Is 54:8, 9. Jr 5:24; 31:35; 33:20. Jm 5:7.

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