God remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1–5)

Says וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת־נֹחַ, and God remembered Noah (8:1). He caused a wind to pass over the earth (the BSB has sent a wind), and the waters abated; the BSB’s began to subside has no verb for began. The springs of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped (8:2), the fountains and windows that 7:11 had opened. The waters went back, going and returning, and decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days (8:3). The ark rested (וַתָּנַח, a Qal of nuakh) on the mountains of Ararat: the construct is plural, a region, not one peak (8:4). In 8:5 the tops of the mountains were seen. See the Hebrew notes, and the xref from 7:11 to 8:2.

Implies God remembered is covenant faithfulness toward Noah (6:18; Gen 19:29; Exod 2:24), not recall after forgetting: the verb is followed at once by action. וַתָּנַח, מָנוֹחַ (8:9) and הַנִּיחֹחַ (8:21) share the consonants of נֹחַ, Noah, as far as the text bears it.

Uncertain Whether the wind recalls 1:2 as a new creation is not stated; the shared wording is real, and no lean is taken. The dates, the extent of all the earth, and any named peak are treated in the notes on chronology, extent and Ararat. No lean is taken.