Gen 8:6–7: the window and the raven

Says וַיְהִי מִקֵּץ אַרְבָּעִים יוֹם, "and it was at the end of forty days" ("After forty days," BSB), Noah opened אֶת־חַלּוֹן הַתֵּבָה אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה, "the window of the ark that he had made": חַלּוֹן, the ordinary word for a window, not the word used for the opening in 6:16.

Says In 8:7 וַיְשַׁלַּח אֶת־הָעֹרֵב, "and he sent out the raven" (BDB "raven"), וַיֵּצֵא יָצוֹא וָשׁוֹב, "and it went out, going out and returning," עַד־יְבֹשֶׁת הַמַּיִם מֵעַל הָאָרֶץ, "until the drying of the waters from upon the earth." The two infinitives absolute after the finite verb describe a movement kept up over time ("It kept flying back and forth," BSB).

Uncertain Whether "returning" means that the raven came back into the ark, or that it flew to and fro without coming in: the BSB carries the second reading. Swete has "did not return" (see the textual note on 8:7). No lean is taken here.