Bra, carved, cut, fashioned like the work of a sculptor, gave a new shape to, formed from unformed material. From Br, a knife; br-i, to carve, to cut. Brashit, in the commencement or beginning of individualized existence (with the initial preposition b-). B signifies in; it (which is related to at) signifies individualized existence; rash, a principle or beginning, or a commencement. At, connected with the Chaldaic, signifies substance, essence, or individuality, "the thing itself" (Latin, ens); it is correctly translated "individualized substance." Eshmim, the combination of the preposition e with the substantive shmim, the word signifying of the visible heavens, or the planisphere. Artz, the earth in a state of aridity, or as a generalized expression for the earth; ar signifies the earth, and the termination tz intensifies the signification of drought, whiteness, aridity; in contrast with this is adme, red earth, or productive earth or soil. U- is a conjunction, signifying and or then, in the sense of succession of time, something like our phrase "and then." Teou does not mean "without form," nor does ubeou mean "and void," as rendered in our English version, at least not in the ordinary sense of these words. "Teou refers to extinct life, or to existence shut up as in a tomb and in darkness, while u-beou refers to life which is about reappearing, but still hidden in the egg or the ovary, and waiting for the word which shall cause the dawn of creation to shine upon it." These words are more properly rendered "tomb-like darkness and undeveloped." Eshc means darkness; not merely an intense darkness, but what may be denominated a "thick darkness;" it is an enshrouding darkness which compresses and hinders. It is precisely such a darkness as would be produced by the interstratified cloud-layers between the convolutions of a forming spiral nebula, or the cloud-strata surrounding the earth before electrolytic decomposition of the aqueous vapors had ensued. With the advent of the sun, in the narrative, this darkness and the term which expresses it disappear. Teou-m is the word above explained, with the termination -m, expressing the idea of arrested, doubtful, indefinite, as applied to all existence; the word "undifferentiated nature" properly interprets its vagueness and general character of an abyss of being, in the etymological sense of "nature" as the totality of things at that time born or produced. Rove means breath, in the sense of an expanding, liberating, or developing spirit; its literal meaning is "the breath, the spirit which dilates and frees." Mrepht, brooded with incubating love; reph is composed of re, "to be full of good-will, to be agreeable," and eph, "to cover, to protect, to incubate, to brood."