Genesis 6:17
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
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Flood
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Revelation 12:16
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
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מַבּוּל
mabbûwl · mab-bool'
13 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
a deluge
Strong's KJV usage: flood.
Strong's first: Genesis 6:17Strong's last: Psalms 29:10
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nâhâr · naw-hawr'
8 times translated as this KJV form119 total Strong's occurrences
a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
Strong's KJV usage: flood, river.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 24:2Strong's last: Isaiah 59:19
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yᵉʼôr · yeh-ore'
5 times translated as this KJV form64 total Strong's occurrences
a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria
Strong's KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 46:7Strong's last: Amos 9:5
Open full H2975 profile →κατακλυσμός
kataklysmós · kat-ak-looce-mos'
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
an inundation
Strong's KJV usage: :--flood.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:38Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:5
Open full G2627 profile →נַחַל
nachal · nakh'-al
3 times translated as this KJV form141 total Strong's occurrences
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
Strong's KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Strong's first: Job 28:4Strong's last: Jeremiah 47:2
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sheṭeph · sheh'-tef
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a deluge (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: flood, outrageous, overflowing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 9:26Strong's last: Nahum 1:8
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potamós · pot-am-os'
2 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water
Strong's KJV usage: :--flood, river, stream, water.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 12:15Strong's last: Revelation 12:16
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plḗmmyra · plame-moo'-rah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
flood-tide, i.e. (by analogy) a freshet
Strong's KJV usage: :--flood.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 6:48Strong's last: Luke 6:48
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potamophórētos · pot-am-of-or'-ay-tos
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
river-borne, i.e. overwhelmed by a stream
Strong's KJV usage: :--carried away of the flood.
Strong's first: Revelation 12:15Strong's last: Revelation 12:15
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ʼôwr · ore
1 times translated as this KJV form123 total Strong's occurrences
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: bright, clear, day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Strong's first: Amos 8:8Strong's last: Amos 8:8
Open full H216 profile →זָרַם
zâram · zaw-ram'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to gush (as water)
Strong's KJV usage: carry away as with a flood, pour out.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 90:5Strong's last: Psalms 90:5
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zerem · zeh'-rem
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
a gush of water
Strong's KJV usage: flood, overflowing, shower, storm, tempest.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 28:2Strong's last: Isaiah 28:2
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H3999
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
H3999
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
H3999
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
H3999
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
H3999
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
H3999
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
H3999
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
H3999
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
H3999
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
H3999
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
H3999
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
H3999
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
H5104
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
H5104
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
H5104
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
H5104
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
H5104
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
H5104
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
H5158
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
H3999
The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
H5104
He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
H5158
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
H2229
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
H2230
Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
H5104
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
English meaning and historical usage.
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flood
FLOOD, noun flud.
1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; particularly, a body of water, rising, swelling and overflowing land not usually covered with water. Thus there is a flood every spring, in the Connecticut, which inundates the adjacent meadows. There is an annual flood in the Nile, and in the Mississippi.
2. The flood by way of eminence, the deluge; the great body of water which inundated the earth in the days of Noah. Before the flood men live to a great age.
3. A river; a sense chiefly poetical.
4. The flowing of the tide; the semi-diurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; opposed to ebb. The ship entered the harbor on the flood Hence flood-tide; young flood; high flood
5. A great quantity; an inundation; an overflowing; abundance; superabundance; as a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
6. A great body or stream of any fluid substance; as a flood of light; a flood of lava. Hence, figuratively, a flood of vice.
7. Menstrual discharge.
FLOOD, verb transitive To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, to flood a meadow.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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