Compare & Correlate · Lexical
Wind over the waters
The wind over the deep at the beginning, the wind that makes the flood waters subside, and the wind that splits the sea. The same few words recur — wind, the deep, the waters parted, the dry land, and in the flood the blessing given again word for word. No verse calls either a new creation; the vocabulary is what is shared.
Lexical: A word the passages share, with its count in the annotated corpus.
Wind over the waters. Lexical — the link is the words themselves, checked token by token against the annotated Hebrew corpus, with a count wherever rarity is the finding.
- רוּחַ ruach, “wind, spirit” — 2 verses in the annotated Hebrew corpus holding it together with tehom, the deep: Exodus 15:8, Genesis 1:2
The words, as the corpus holds them (each checked present, or absent, in the verses cited beside it):
- רוּחַ ruach, “wind, spirit”
- מַיִם mayim, “waters”
- תְּהוֹם tehom, “the deep”
- רָקִיעַ raqia, “firmament”
- אֲרֻבָּה arubbah, “window”
- בָּקַע baqa, “split”
- יַבָּשָׁה yabbashah, “dry land”
- יָבֵשׁ yavesh, “be dry”
- פָּרָה parah, “be fruitful”
- רָבָה ravah, “multiply”
- מָלֵא male, “fill”
Sources:
- The count of verses holding ruach with tehom is re-derived from the annotated Hebrew corpus by tests/test_correlations.py; every word marked in a cell is checked in the verse cited beside it.
- Reading the flood, or the sea, as a new creation is a long tradition's; no verse here says it, and the entry shows only the words the passages share.
Row by row
| Creation, Genesis 1 | The flood, Genesis 8–9 | The sea, Exodus 14–15 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The wind | the wind of God hovering over the face of the watersGenesis 1:2 | God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsidedGenesis 8:1 | the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all nightExodus 14:21 |
| The deep | darkness over the face of the deepGenesis 1:2 | the fountains of the deep were closedGenesis 8:2 | the deeps congealed in the heart of the seaExodus 15:8 |
| Wind and the deep share a verse twice in the Hebrew Bible: Genesis 1:2 and Exodus 15:8. In Genesis 8 they are a verse apart. | |||
| The waters held back | a firmament to divide the waters from the watersGenesis 1:6 | the windows of the heavens were closedGenesis 8:2 | the waters were splitExodus 14:21 |
| The dry land | let the dry land appearGenesis 1:9 | the earth was dryGenesis 8:14 | Israel went into the sea on the dry landExodus 14:22 |
| Genesis 8 has the verb of the same root, not the noun: one root, two lemmas. | |||
| The blessing | be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earthGenesis 1:28 | be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earthGenesis 9:1 | no blessing of increase at the sea |
Where it appears in the text
- Genesis 1 — the wind over the face of the waters
- Genesis 8 — the wind that makes the flood waters subside
- Exodus 14 — the east wind that splits the sea
- Exodus 15 — the one other verse where wind and the deep meet
In the app this comparison opens beneath each of those chapters. Open it in TheophilusBible.