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מַבּוּל

mabul · flood

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3999 · appears 13 times in the Bible

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What it means

mabul (מַבּוּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flood”.

The great flood in the days of Noah. The word is almost only used for that event.

How to say it

ma·bul

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The great flood that covered the earth in Noah's time.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 6:17

    And I, look, I am bringing the flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the spirit of life, from under the heavens; everything that is on the earth will perish.

  • Genesis 7:6

    And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, waters on the earth.

  • Genesis 7:7

    And Noah went into the ark, and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the flood.

  • Genesis 7:10

    And it happened after the seven days that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

  • Genesis 7:17

    And the flood was forty days on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth.

  • Genesis 9:11

    And I will establish my covenant with you: and never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

  • Genesis 9:15

    that I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living being of all flesh; and the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

  • Genesis 9:28

    And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

  • Genesis 10:1

    And these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

  • Genesis 10:32

    These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations separated on the earth after the flood.

  • Genesis 11:10

    These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

  • Psalms 29:10

    YHWH sat enthroned over the flood, and YHWH sits enthroned as king forever.

And 1 more times.