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Flood

An event recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H3999, H4113, H7858, H8241, G2627, G4132, G4215
Hebrew
מַבּוּל · mabbûwl
Greek
κατακλυσμός · kataklusmos

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

κατακλυσμός

G2627
Transliteration
kataklusmos
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-M
Indexed occurrences
4

Glosses

flood

Lexicon definition

κατα-κλυσμός, -οῦ, ὁ (κατακλύζω), [in LXX chiefly for מַבּוּל, Gen.6:17, al.; also for שֶׁטֶף, Psa.32:6, al. ;] a flood, deluge: Mat.24:38-39 Luk.17:27, 2Pe.2:5.† (AS)

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

πλήμμυρα

G4132
Transliteration
plēmmura
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-F
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

flood

Lexicon definition

πλήμμυρα, -ης (for Att.. -ας, see Bl., § 7, 1) (πλήθω), [in LXX: π. γένεσθαι, Job.40:18 (23) (נָהָר עָשַׁק) * ;] a flood (of sea or river) : Luk.6:48.† (AS)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

ποταμός

G4215
Transliteration
potamós
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
17

Glosses

flood, river, stream, water

Lexicon definition

a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

שֶׁטֶף

H7858
Transliteration
sheṭeph
Pronunciation
sheh'-tef
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
6

Glosses

flood, outrageous, overflowing.

Lexicon definition

a deluge (literally or figuratively)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

נָהָר

H5104
Transliteration
nâhâr
Pronunciation
naw-hawr'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
119

Glosses

flood, river.

Lexicon definition

a stream (including the sea

expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.)

figuratively, prosperity

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

עָשַׁק

H6231
Transliteration
ʻâshaq
Pronunciation
aw-shak'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
37

Glosses

get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress(-ion), -or), do violence (wrong).

Lexicon definition

to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Flood

An event recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. (See [216]DELUGE.) In Josh. 24:2, 3, 14, 15, the word "flood" (R.V., "river") means the river Euphrates. In Ps. 66:6, this word refers to the river Jordan.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Flood

Indexed occurrences: 36

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Strong's Concordance

Floods

Indexed occurrences: 2

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All Scripture references59 references

Genesis 14

Genesis 6Genesis 6:13Genesis 6:17Genesis 7:6Genesis 7:7Genesis 7:10Genesis 7:17Genesis 8:20Genesis 9:11Genesis 9:15Genesis 9:28Genesis 10:1Genesis 10:32Genesis 11:10

2 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 5:20

1 Kings 1

1 Kings 13:32

2 Kings 2

2 Kings 14:42 Kings 17:29

1 Chronicles 1

1 Chronicles 14:11

Job 5

Job 22:11Job 22:16Job 27:20Job 38:25Job 38:34

Psalms 10

Psalms 6:6Psalms 29:10Psalms 32:6Psalms 69:2Psalms 69:15Psalms 74:15Psalms 90:5Psalms 93:3Psalms 124:4Psalms 140:11

Proverbs 2

Proverbs 17:14Proverbs 27:4

Isaiah 4

Isaiah 28:17Isaiah 54:8Isaiah 54:9Isaiah 59:19

Daniel 4

Daniel 9:26Daniel 11:10Daniel 11:22Daniel 11:40

Amos 1

Amos 8:8

Nahum 1

Nahum 1:8

Matthew 2

Matthew 24:38Matthew 24:39

Luke 3

Luke 6:48Luke 17:26Luke 17:27

Acts 2

Acts 10:9Acts 17:30

Hebrews 1

Hebrews 11:7

1 Peter 2

1 Peter 3:201 Peter 4:4

2 Peter 2

2 Peter 2:52 Peter 3:6

Revelation 1

Revelation 21:4

Topical Bible

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Ancient Context2 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

Concerning The Flood; And After What Manner Noah Was Saved In An Ark, With His Kindred, And Afterwards Dwelt In The Plain Of Shinar.

Antiquities Book 1, Chapter 3

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Isaac Died, And Was Buried In Hebron.

Antiquities Book 1, Chapter 22

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Topic

FLOOD

Nave’s Topical Bible references for FLOOD.

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Dictionary

Animal

An organized living creature endowed with sensation. The Levitical law divided animals into clean and unclean, although the distinction seems to have existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The clean could be offered in sacrifice and eaten. All animals that had not cloven hoofs and did not chew the cud were unclean. The list of clean and unclean quadrupeds is set forth in the Levitical law (Deut. 14:3-20; Lev. 11).

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Clean

The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in Lev. 11-15; Num. 19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice. It existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The regulations regarding such animals are recorded in Lev. 11 and Deut. 14:1-21. The Hebrews were prohibited from using as food certain animal substances, such as (1) blood; (2) the fat covering the intestines, termed the caul; (3) the fat on the intestines, called the mesentery; (4) the fat of the kidneys; and (5) the fat tail of certain sheep (Ex. 29:13, 22; Lev. 3:4-9; 9:19; 17:10; 19:26). The chief design of these regulations seems to have been to establish a system of regimen which would distinguish the Jews from all other nations. Regarding the design and the abolition of these regulations the reader will find all the details in Lev. 20:24-26; Acts 10:9-16; 11:1-10; Heb. 9:9-14.

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Deluge

The name given to Noah's flood, the history of which is recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. It began in the year 2516 B.C., and continued twelve lunar months and ten days, or exactly one solar year. The cause of this judgment was the corruption and violence that filled the earth in the ninth generation from Adam. God in righteous indignation determined to purge the earth of the ungodly race. Amid a world of crime and guilt there was one household that continued faithful and true to God, the household of Noah. "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations." At the command of God, Noah made an ark 300 cubits long, 50 broad, and 30 high. He slowly proceeded with this work during a period of one hundred and twenty years (Gen. 6:3). At length the purpose of God began to be carried into effect. The following table exhibits the order of events as they occurred: In the six hundredth year of his life Noah is commanded by God to enter the ark, taking with him his wife, and his three sons with their wives (Gen. 7:1-10). The rain begins on the seventeenth day of the second month (Gen. 7:11-17). The rain ceases, the waters prevail, fifteen cubits upward (Gen. 7:18-24). The ark grounds on one of the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, or one hundred and fifty days after the Deluge began (Gen. 8:1-4). Tops of the mountains visible on the first day of the tenth month (Gen. 8:5). Raven and dove sent out forty days after this (Gen. 8:6-9). Dove again sent out seven days afterwards; and in the evening she returns with an olive leaf in her mouth (Gen. 8:10, 11). Dove sent out the third time after an interval of other seven days, and returns no more (Gen. 8:12). The ground becomes dry on the first day of the first month of the new year (Gen. 8:13). Noah leaves the ark on the twenty-seventh day of the second month (Gen. 8:14-19). The historical truth of the narrative of the Flood is established by the references made to it by our Lord (Matt. 24:37; comp. Luke 17:26). Peter speaks of it also (1 Pet. 3:20; 2 Pet. 2:5). In Isa. 54:9 the Flood is referred to as "the waters of Noah." The Biblical narrative clearly shows that so far as the human race was concerned the Deluge was universal; that it swept away all men living except Noah and his family, who were preserved in the ark; and that the present human race is descended from those who were thus preserved. Traditions of the Deluge are found among all the great divisions of the human family; and these traditions, taken as a whole, wonderfully agree with the Biblical narrative, and agree with it in such a way as to lead to the conclusion that the Biblical is the authentic narrative, of which all these traditions are more or less corrupted versions. The most remarkable of these traditions is that recorded on tablets prepared by order of Assur-bani-pal, the king of Assyria. These were, however, copies of older records which belonged to somewhere about B.C. 2000, and which formed part of the priestly library at Erech (q.v.), "the ineradicable remembrance of a real and terrible event." (See [154]NOAH; [155]CHALDEA.)

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Flood

An event recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. (See [216]DELUGE.) In Josh. 24:2, 3, 14, 15, the word "flood" (R.V., "river") means the river Euphrates. In Ps. 66:6, this word refers to the river Jordan.

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High place

An eminence, natural or artificial, where worship by sacrifice or offerings was made (1 Kings 13:32; 2 Kings 17:29). The first altar after the Flood was built on a mountain (Gen. 8:20). Abraham also built an altar on a mountain (12:7, 8). It was on a mountain in Gilead that Laban and Jacob offered sacrifices (31:54). After the Israelites entered the Promised Land they were strictly enjoined to overthrow the high places of the Canaanites (Ex. 34:13; Deut. 7:5; 12:2, 3), and they were forbidden to worship the Lord on high places (Deut. 12:11-14), and were enjoined to use but one altar for sacrifices (Lev. 17:3, 4; Deut. 12; 16:21). The injunction against high places was, however, very imperfectly obeyed, and we find again and again mention made of them (2 Kings 14:4; 15:4, 35:2 Chr. 15:17, etc.).

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Methuselah

Man of the dart, the son of Enoch, and grandfather of Noah. He was the oldest man of whom we have any record, dying at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, in the year of the Flood (Gen. 5:21-27; 1 Chr. 1:3).

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Nile

Dark; blue, not found in Scripture, but frequently referred to in the Old Testament under the name of Sihor, i.e., "the black stream" (Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18) or simply "the river" (Gen. 41:1; Ex. 1:22, etc.) and the "flood of Egypt" (Amos 8:8). It consists of two rivers, the White Nile, which takes its rise in the Victoria Nyanza, and the Blue Nile, which rises in the Abyssinian Mountains. These unite at the town of Khartoum, whence it pursues its course for 1,800 miles, and falls into the Mediterranean through its two branches, into which it is divided a few miles north of Cairo, the Rosetta and the Damietta branch. (See [439]EGYPT.)

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Shibboleth

Sibboleth, ear of corn; stream or flood

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