Study it in the app“In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.”
In theבִּsix hundredthשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹתyearשְׁנַת שָׁנָהof the lifeלְחַיֵּיof Noah,נֹחַin the secondהַשֵּׁנִיmonth,בַּחֹדֶשׁon the seventeenthבְּשִׁבְעָה עָשָׂרdayיוֹםof the month,לַחֹדֶשׁon thatהַזֶּהdayבַּיּוֹםallכָּלthe springsמַעְיְנֹתof the greatרַבָּהdeepתְּהוֹםburst open,נִבְקְעוּandוַthe floodgatesאֲרֻבֹּתof the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִםwere opened.נִפְתָּחוּ
six
Six; also "sixth".
Where else “shesh” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meot” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shenat” appearslife
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chaye” appearsNoah
Noah, son of Lamech, the man who found favor with YHWH and was saved with his family in the ark from the flood. In Hebrew "Noach" sounds like "rest" and "comfort" (Genesis 5:29).
Where else “noach” appearssecond
The one that comes after the first; the other of two.
Where else “sheni” appearsmonth
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodesh” appearsseven
Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".
Where else “shiva” appears-teen (ten)
Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".
Where else “asar” appearsday
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appearsspring, fountain
Spring, fountain of water; figuratively, a source.
Where else “maynot” appearsgreat
Of great size or power; the one who stands out.
Where else “raba” appearsthe deep
The deep waters: the deep sea, the ocean, and the waters under the earth. In the Hebrew Bible it is not a place of punishment or the place of the dead.
Where else “tehom” appearssplit
To cleave something in two, like wood or the sea.
Where else “nivku” appearsfloodgate
The openings of the sky through which rain falls.
Where else “arubot” appearssky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appearsopen
To open a door, mouth or eyes.
Where else “niftachu” appears10And it happened after the seven days that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
11 · This verse (above)
12And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
1. What it says
Who entered the ark, and what did YHWH do after they went in (vv. 7, 16)?
2. What it means
What does the text teach by repeating that Noah did all that Elohim had commanded him (vv. 5, 9)?
3. How I live it
What step you have been putting off can you take this week in obedience to what you know is good?
