Flood
מַבּוּלStrong’s H3999mabbul (mab-bul)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mabbul is the Hebrew word usually translated “flood”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Flood, deluge.Noah's flood that submerged the entire planet earth under water for about a year
How it's translated
- the flood 9
- a flood 2
- and the flood 1
- to the flood 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 11
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
- Genesis 7:7And 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.
- Genesis 7:10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
- Genesis 7:17And 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.
- Genesis 9:11And 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.
- Genesis 9:15And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
מַבּוּל mabbul · flood
1) flood, deluge. 1a) Noah's flood that submerged the entire planet earth under water for about a year
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLOOD, noun
flud.
- 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.
- The flood by way of eminence, the deluge; the great body of water which inundated the earth in the days of Noah.
- A river; a sense chiefly poetical.
- The flowing of the tide; the semi-diurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; opposed to ebb.
All definitions and other forms of “flood”
- A great quantity; an inundation; an overflowing; abundance; superabundance; as a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
- A great body or stream of any fluid substance; as a flood of light; a flood of lava.
- 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). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.