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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
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17 - I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 - Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 - And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11 - I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:15 - then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:28 - After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 - This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 - This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:10 - The LORD sits enthroned over the engulfing waters, the LORD sits enthroned as the eternal king.
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