All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.
Verse 22. Of all that was in the dry land] From this we may conclude that such animals only as could not live in the water were preserved in the ark.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Whether men or beasts, &c., all that breathed the same air with man, all that lived in the same element which man by his sins had infected; whereby the fishes are excepted, as living in another element.
See Poole on “Gen 2:7“.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life,…. Whether of fowls, beast, cattle, or creeping things:
of all that was in the dry land, died; by which description fishes were excepted, since they breathe not, having no lungs, and are not on the dry land, where they cannot live, but in the waters. Some pretend it to be the opinion of some Jewish writers, that the fishes did die, the waters being made hot, and scalded them; but this fable I have not met with.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 7:22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.
Ver. 22. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life died, of all that was in the dry land. ] This last clause exempts fishes: though the Jews would needs persuade us that these also died; for that the waters of the flood were boiling hot. But rain-water uses not to be hot, we know; and therefore we reject this conceit as a Jewish fable.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
breath = neshamah. App-16.
of life. Hebrew of the spirit (ruach, App-9), of life (Hebrew. chay).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
breath of life: Heb. breath of the spirit of life, Gen 2:7, Gen 6:17
Reciprocal: Gen 7:23 – every living substance Isa 2:22 – whose Rom 5:14 – death Rev 16:3 – and every