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Genesis 1:5–6

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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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From verse 5

  1. Psalms 74:16Rank 1 from verse 5
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    16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

  2. Isaiah 45:7Rank 2 from verse 5
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    7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

  3. 1 Thessalonians 5:5Rank 3 from verse 5
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    5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

  4. Psalms 104:20Rank 4 from verse 5
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    20Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

  5. Genesis 8:22Rank 5 from verse 5
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    22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

From verse 6

  1. Jeremiah 51:15Rank 1 from verse 6
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    15He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

  2. Job 37:18Rank 2 from verse 6
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    18Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

  3. Psalms 33:6Rank 3 from verse 6
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    6By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

  4. Job 26:7–8Rank 4 from verse 6
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    7He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

    8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

  5. Jeremiah 10:12–13Rank 5 from verse 6
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    12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

    13When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

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Genesis 1:5

COMBINED MEANING

called

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of call. Sense 1: To name. Sense 2: To summon or invite. Sense 3: To proclaim or address. Sense 4: To request.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

light

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Sense 1: Brightness or illumination. Sense 2: A source or opening that gives light. Sense 3: Figuratively, truth, knowledge, revelation, life, or favour contrasted with darkness. Sense 4: To illuminate or kindle. Sense 5: To alight or come upon. Sense 6: Slight, easy, swift, or not heavy.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

darkness

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Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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night

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1. The dark part of the daily cycle distinguished from day, from evening until morning, or any portion of it. 2. A time or condition compared with night or darkness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

morning

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Sense 1: The beginning or early part of the day, including hours before daylight. Sense 2: The dawn or a beginning compared with dawn.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Genesis 1:6

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

midst

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The middle, centre, interior, or intervening part of a place, body, company, or condition; among, within, surrounded by, or in the presence of persons or things.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

divide

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1. To apportion, distribute, share, or allot. 2. To separate or distinguish into parts, sides, groups, or portions.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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6¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

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7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

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