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by chesed28

Thank you for your analysis of Genesis regarding the firmament. Trying to understand the meaning of the word "firmament" better. I looked up Strongs using the blueletterbible.org tool and it said the following:

extended surface (solid), expanse, firmament

expanse (flat as base, support)

firmament (of vault of heaven supporting waters above)

considered by Hebrews as solid and supporting 'waters' above

Trying to understand better the part about "emptying" in your analysis. I believe strongly in the NT quotations regarding the kenosis and I just want to see how the link is made back to Genesis and the incarnation. Very interesting, thanks for your patience in this matter!

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I am delighted to have your question!

The word firmament רקיע is divided into it's sub roots רק-יע.

רק - empty H7386

יע - his flesh (The subroot is not used alone as a word in the scripture, so you will not find it in Strong's)

You can see the metaphor of the ayin played out in ברע as 'in ב the revelation ר of flesh ע', 'in ב evil רע', or 'son בר of evil/flesh ע'.

From the word firmament, we get that it is empty flesh as a foreshadowing of his kenosis.