To: Commander8; drstevej; CCWoody; P-Marlowe; Wrigley; jude24; RochesterFan; snerkel
"Answer: Not at all. To "replenish" something means to fill it. So Adam and Eve were told only to fill the earth, not refill it. We can see this is true in both the dictionary definition and in each of the seven times replenish is used in the Bible.
Noah Websters 1828 Dictionary
In order to understand a classical English word from the King James Bible, we should use a classical English dictionary, like Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary. Here is how it defines the word "replenish".
Here is the dictionary definition of replenish:
To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance. The magazines are replenished with corn. The springs are replenished with water.
Multiply, and replenish the earth, Genesis 1."
Why go through all that trouble...
...when you can just look up the passage in the NIV where it is far more clear and accurate!
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Jean
5 posted on
03/21/2003 4:47:40 AM PST by
Jean Chauvin
("Het lot wordt weliswaar ongezien geworpen, maar de HERE bepaalt hoe het valt." -Sprueken 16:33)
To: Jean Chauvin
Noah Websters 1828 Dictionary. 1828? Am I reading that correctly?
6 posted on
03/21/2003 6:55:53 AM PST by
snerkel
(WARNING: My posts have been known to offend.)
To: Jean Chauvin
Hey, the NKJV says "fill" as well. We don't need no steenkin' paraphrase to clear that up. ;-) :-)
13 posted on
03/21/2003 7:53:47 AM PST by
newgeezer
(fundamentalist, regarding the Constitution AND the Holy Bible)
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