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Lexicon :: Strong's H3999 - mabûl

Aa
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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17 - For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 - And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 - And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:11 - And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:15 - And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:28 - And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 - Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 - These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:10 - The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.
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