Exodus 15:8
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
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Floods
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Matthew 7:27
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
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9 occurrences in 7 verses.
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נָהָר
nâhâr · naw-hawr'
10 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: Job 20:17Strong's last: Jonah 2:3
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nâzal · naw-zal'
3 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to drip, or shed by trickling
Strong's KJV usage: distil, drop, flood, (cause to) flow(-ing), gush out, melt, pour (down), running water, stream.
Strong's first: Exodus 15:8Strong's last: Isaiah 44:3
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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: Matthew 7:25Strong's last: Matthew 7:27
Open full G4215 profile →נַחַל
nachal · nakh'-al
2 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: 2 Samuel 22:5Strong's last: Psalms 18:4
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shibbôl · shib-bole
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch
Strong's KJV usage: branch, channel, ear (of corn), (water-)flood, Shibboleth. Compare 5451.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 69:2Strong's last: Psalms 69:2
Open full H7641 profile →שֶׁטֶף
sheṭeph · sheh'-tef
1 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: Psalms 32:6Strong's last: Psalms 32:6
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H5140
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
H5158
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
H5104
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
H5104
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
H5158
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
H5104
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
H7858
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
H7641
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
H5140
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
H5104
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
H5104
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
H5104
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
H5104
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
H5104
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
H5140
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
H5104
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
H5104
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
G4215
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
G4215
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
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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