Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
KJV
Appellavitque lucem Diem, et tenebras Noctem : factumque est vespere et mane, dies unus.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐκάλεσεν ὁ θεὸς τὸ φῶς ἡμέραν, καὶ τὸ σκότος ἐκάλεσεν νύκτα. καὶ ἐγένετο ἑσπέρα καὶ ἐγένετο πρωί, ἡμέρα μία.
LXX
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
ASV
וַ/יִּקְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים לָ/אוֹר֙ י֔וֹם וְ/לַ/חֹ֖שֶׁךְ קָ֣רָא לָ֑יְלָה וַֽ/יְהִי עֶ֥רֶב וַֽ/יְהִי בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם אֶחָֽד
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
א֣וֹר
'vr
noun · 120×
אֶחָ֖ד
'chd
adjective · 970×
בֹּ֔קֶר
bqr
noun · 214×
חֹ֔שֶׁךְ
chshk
noun · 80×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יִּקְרָ֥א
yqr'
verb · 737×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
עָֽרֶב
'rb
noun · 134×
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Of the goodness of God explained in the creation of things, and of the Trinity as found in the first words of Genesis. The story concerning the origin of the world (Genesis 1) is allegorically explained, and he applies it to those things which God works for sanctified and blessed man. Finally, he makes an end of this work, having implored eternal rest from God. Chapter 1. He Ca…
Fire is one of the four elements, light and with a greater tendency to ascend than the others. It has the power of burning and also of giving light, and it was made by the Creator on the first day. For the divine Scripture says, And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. Genesis 1:3 Fire is not a different thing from what light is, as some maintain. Others again hol…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:13 — Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
- 1Thess 5:5 — Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
- Eph 5:13 — But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
- Gen 1:8 — And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
- Gen 1:13 — And the evening and the morning were the third day.
- Gen 1:19 — And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
- Gen 1:23 — And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
- Gen 1:31 — And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Gen 1:31 — And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Gen 8:22 — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Isa 45:7 — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
- Jer 33:20 — 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;
- Job 2:13 — So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Job 38:12 — Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
- Ps 19:2 — Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
- Ps 74:16 — The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
- Ps 104:20 — Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.