STRONGS H3999:
Abbreviations
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מַבּוּל noun masculineGenesis 7:6 flood in time of Noah (Late Hebrew
id.; Jewish-Aramaic
מַבּוּלָא; Syriac
; derivation dubious; Thes and others √
יבל, but improbable, see Dl
Prol. 122 f.; possibly old Assyrian (Babylonian) loan-word (yet form unknown. in Assyrian), or from √
נבל = Assyrian
nabâlu,
destroy Dl
HWB 443 f.; compare Dl
Par. 156; Prol. 122 Che
Psalm 29:10 critical note, Hebraica. iii. 3, 175 f., O. Whitehouse
COT 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; Che
see critical note '
at the storm' (
destruction = destructive storm Id
Hebraica. 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)).
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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
