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Lexicon :: Strong's H3999 - mabûl

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מַבּוּל
Transliteration
mabûl
Pronunciation
mab-bool'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From יָבַל (H2986) in the sense of flowing
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1142

Strong’s Definitions

מַבּוּל mabbûwl, mab-bool'; from H2986 in the sense of flowing; a deluge:—flood.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's H3999 in the following manner: flood (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's H3999 in the following manner: flood (13x).
  1. flood, deluge.

    1. Noah's flood that submerged the entire planet earth under water for about a year

      Some think Noah's flood was only local. However the description of it found in Gen 6-8 makes this patently absurd. If it were local, Noah had 120 years to migrate out of the area to safe ground! Why waste all that effort building a ship? He only had to move less than 1500 feet a day to reach the farthest point on the globe! With the possible exception of Psa 29:10, this word always refers to Noah's flood. The real reason for insisting on a local flood is the acceptance of evolution with its long geological ages. Most holding that view are not willing to allow a global world wide flood to have happened less than 5000 years ago. To admit such eliminates the need for the geological ages for most of the geological column would have be rapidly laid down by Noah's flood.
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַבּוּל mabbûwl, mab-bool'; from H2986 in the sense of flowing; a deluge:—flood.
STRONGS H3999: Abbreviations
מַבּוּל noun masculineGenesis 7:6 flood in time of Noah (Late Hebrew id.; Jewish-Aramaic מַבּוּלָא; Syriac bdb055001; derivation dubious; Thes and others √ יבל, but improbable, see DlProl. 122 f.; possibly old Assyrian (Babylonian) loan-word (yet form unknown. in Assyrian), or from √ נבל = Assyrian nabâlu, destroy DlHWB 443 f.; compare DlPar. 156; Prol. 122 ChePsalm 29:10 critical note, Hebraica. iii. 3, 175 f., O. WhitehouseCOT ii. 293); — מ׳ only Genesis and Psalm 29:10; always absolute and always with article except Genesis 9:11, 15; — וַיְהִי הַמּ׳ Genesis 17:7; לֹא יִהְיֶה עוֺד מ׳ Genesis 9:11; following by מַיִם as appositive) Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:6; מֵי הַמּ׳ Genesis 7:7, 10; Genesis 9:11; לֹאיִֿהְיֶה עוֺד הַמַּיִם לְמ׳ Genesis 9:15; as epoch, in phrase אַחַר הַמּ׳ Genesis 9:28; Genesis 10:1, 32; Genesis 11:10 (strike out as gloss Bu Di); יָשָׁ֑ב לַמּ׳ י׳ Psalm 29:10 י׳ at the flood sat enthroned (so most; Chesee critical note 'at the storm' (destruction = destructive storm IdHebraica. l.c.), but הַמּ׳ seems in all the other passages to be almost = proper name of the flood; compare also H4325 מֵי נֹחַ Isaiah 54:9 (twice in verse)).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:17; 7:6; 7:6; 7:7; 7:10; 9:11; 9:11; 9:11; 9:15; 9:15; 9:28; 10:1; 10:32; 11:10; 17:7

Psalms

29:10; 29:10; 29:10

Isaiah

54:9

H3999

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3999 matches the Hebrew מַבּוּל (mabûl),
which occurs 13 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17 -

“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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 -

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 -

Seven days later the floodwaters came on the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11 -

“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.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:15 -

“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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:28 -

Now Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 -

These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 -

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 -

These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:10 -

The LORD sits enthroned over the flood;

the LORD sits enthroned, King forever.

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