Ha: the
Ha kadosh: the holy (one) kadosh: holy. Holy, sanctified, set apart
Shem: name, fame, reputation, title of what one is known for. Character.
Ruach: spirit. (Wind, breath) Olam: eternal. Melitz: comforter:helper. Rosh: he. Masculine head. Reshith: beginning, feminine, chief.
Ark. Something that affords protection and safety. In order to hold off or defend or protect from something. Vessel, ship
Flood, deluge: cataclysmic event.
Waters, of a well or spring. Of a river, fertility pregnant about to burst, and bursting.
River: construct??? The four rivers in Eden and the Hebrew meaning of their names is very interesting and revealing as well.
Bird: exact origin of word as applied to feathered creatures is unknown. "To tear and scratch the face of", is it's meaning in early hebrew, which may have nothing at all to do with feathered creatures we now call birds as we know it.
Air. Can mean heavens but also means a firmament, dome of a firmament (which this firmament is actually is a firmament in that it is not empty, but is solid when compared to like "space" for example) but is a layer of a firmament also called a dome of a firmament covering and over or above the ground or earth or dirt and also the sea.
Heaven is described as air between this firmament or earth where ruach hebrew word for spirit or breath (of life) (in a creature or man) or wind of spirit also.
Earth means land or firm or ground or dirt, clay, red. Water, hebrew waters, (described above) a well or spring being "under it".
Sea word origin in hebrew uncertain, can mean, red just like man or land dirt or ground, also can mean "flood" (of invaders) or where flood of invaders can come from.
All this means or amounts to exactly "what" you might say? That if you consider the original language (Ancient Hebrew) that Genesis was written in, especially the creation account, it takes on a whole new meaning that requires a whole other interpretation and how it could be talking about a whole other kind of reality, like a spiritual one, when you consider the meanings of the Hebrew language and words that it was written in and their meanings. No other language can do it justice.
Every word in Genesis and much of the originally Hebrew Bible, has a totally different meaning, and therefore a totally different interpretation, than what we only "think", (and have therefore "assumed" for so many years), than we only "think" it actually means... And you know what they say happens when you/me "assume" things don't you?
Well, there it is......
The word "bird" or fowl of the air, they do not know how the Hebrew word translated "bird" or "fowl" is connected to the feathered creatures we know, in fact it suggests that it may not even have anything to do at all with the feathered creatures of the air or heavens that we know of... And "air" or heavens in Hebrew is unclear also...
In the Heavenly realm of that kind of reality, their is a "sea" for example, but, it is not exactly like the "sea" that we know of, cause it's describing something only "like" a "sea" in that other kind of reality, their is land or earth or dirt or ground, but not like the ground or land or dirt that we know of, yet is like it in a way, but in a metaphorical or symbolic sense...
Almost everything especially in the beginnings of Genesis, if you look into the meaning of the Hebrew words used, are metaphorical and symbolic, a metaphorical "sea" or waters in their reality, that is only like what we know of here, but not "exactly like" it, at least, not in a literal sense...
God Bless!