Lexicon :: Strong's H4325 - mayim

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.”

Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

Then God said, “Let the water swarm with[fn] living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

“Understand that I am bringing a flood ​— ​floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.

Seven days later the floodwaters came on the earth.

The flood continued for forty days on the earth; the water increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.

And the water surged on the earth 150 days.

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the water had decreased significantly.

The water continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down.

In the six hundred first year,[fn] in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

“I establish my covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by floodwaters; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

“I will remember my covenant between me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature.

The angel of the LORD found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

“Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

At evening, the time when women went out to draw water, he made the camels kneel beside a well outside the town.

“I am standing here at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water.

Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was brought to wash his feet and the feet of the men with him.

“I am standing here at a spring. Let the young woman[fn] who comes out to draw water, and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jug,’

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

On that same day Isaac’s servants came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water! ”

He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep ​— ​in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.

Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty, without water.

The steward brought the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet, and got feed for their donkeys.

“Turbulent as water, you will not excel,

because you got into your father’s bed

and you defiled it ​— ​he[fn] got into my bed.

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

“And if they don’t believe even these two signs or listen to what you say, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”

“Go to Pharaoh in the morning. When you see him walking out to the water, stand ready to meet him by the bank of the Nile. Take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake.

“This is what the LORD says: Here is how you will know that I am the LORD. Watch. I am about to strike the water in the Nile with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood.