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
Open full H3999 profile →נָהָר
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
Open full H5104 profile →יְאֹר
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
Open full H5158 profile →שֶׁטֶף
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
Open full H7858 profile →ποταμός
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
Open full G4216 profile →אוֹר
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
Open full H2229 profile →זֶרֶם
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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H2975
Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
H2975
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
H5158
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
H7858
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
H7858
And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
H2975
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
H216
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
H2975
And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
H2975
And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
H7858
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
G2627
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
G2627
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
G4132
He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
G2627
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
G2627
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
G4215
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
G4216
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
G4215
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.
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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