Genesis 7:4

Old Testament • 16 words with Strong's data

"For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth."

Word-by-Word Analysis

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עוֹד

ʻôwd

H5750

properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more

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שֶׁבַע

shebaʻ

H7651

seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number

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יוֹם

yôwm

H3117

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...

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and I will

רִיב

rîyb

H7379

a contest (personal or legal)

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it to

מָטַר

mâṭar

H4306

rain

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upon the

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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אַרְבָּעִים

ʼarbâʻîym

H705

forty

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יוֹם

yôwm

H3117

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...

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and

אַרְבָּעִים

ʼarbâʻîym

H705

forty

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לַיִל

layil

H3915

properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity

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and every

חַי

chay

H2416

alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...

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חַיִל

chayil

H2428

probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength

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that I have

עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh

H6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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will I

שָׁחַת

shâchath

H7843

to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)

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from off the

פָּנִים

pânîym

H6440

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...

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of the

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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Key Terms in This Verse

nights H3915

לַיִל layil

properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity

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substance H2428

חַיִל chayil

probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength

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rain H4306

מָטַר mâṭar

rain

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living H2416

חַי chay

alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively

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forty H705

אַרְבָּעִים ʼarbâʻîym

forty

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forty H705

אַרְבָּעִים ʼarbâʻîym

forty

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destroy H7843

שָׁחַת shâchath

to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)

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cause H7379

רִיב rîyb

a contest (personal or legal)

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face H6440

פָּנִים pânîym

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)

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seven H7651

שֶׁבַע shebaʻ

seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number

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Cross References

Genesis 7:12 cross-reference

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 6:13 cross-reference

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 7:17 cross-reference

And 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 6:17 cross-reference

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.

Genesis 6:7 cross-reference

And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Psalm 69:28 cross-reference

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Job 22:16 cross-reference

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Revelation 3:5 cross-reference

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Amos 4:7 cross-reference

And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained ...

Genesis 8:12 cross-reference

And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

Job 28:25 cross-reference

To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

Genesis 7:10 cross-reference

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

Genesis 8:10 cross-reference

And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

Genesis 6:3 cross-reference

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 2:5 cross-reference

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the grou...

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