Mabbûwl — H3999

Definition

masculine noun

a deluge

1. flood, deluge.
1. Noah's flood that submerged the entire planet earth under water for about a year
2. Some think Noah's flood was only local. However the description of it found in Gen. 6 through 8 makes this patently absurd. If it was 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 Ps 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 been rapidly laid down by Noah's flood.

Usually translated as

flood

Origin

from H2986 in the sense of flowing

• Derived from Yâbal (H2986)

Greek equivalents

• kataklysmós (G2627)

Occurrences

Mabbûwl occurs 13 times in 12 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (11), Psalms (1)

• Genesis 6:17 — And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood (הַמַּבּ֥וּל) 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.
• Genesis 7:6 — And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood (וְהַמַּבּ֣וּל) of waters was upon the earth.
• Genesis 7:7 — 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 (הַמַּבּֽוּל).
• Genesis 7:10 — And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood (הַמַּבּ֔וּל) were upon the earth.
• Genesis 7:17 — And the flood (הַמַּבּ֛וּל) was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
• Genesis 9:11 — And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood (הַמַּבּ֑וּל); neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
• Genesis 9:11 — 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 (מַבּ֖וּל) to destroy the earth.
• Genesis 9:15 — 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 (לְמַבּ֔וּל) to destroy all flesh.
• Genesis 9:28 — And Noah lived after the flood (הַמַּבּ֑וּל) three hundred and fifty years.
• Genesis 10:1 — Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood (הַמַּבּֽוּל).
• Genesis 10:32 — 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 (הַמַּבּֽוּל).
• Genesis 11:10 — These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood (הַמַּבּֽוּל):
• Psalms 29:10 — The LORD sitteth upon the flood (לַמַּבּ֣וּל); yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.