Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.Genesis 7:11 in the real world
Who
In what words
- אֲרֻבָּהʼărubbâha lattice; (by implication) a window, dovecot (because of the pigeon-holes), chimney (with
- מַעְיָןmaʻyâna fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction)
- תְּהוֹםtᵉhôwman abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterrane
- זֶהzehthe masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
- נֹחַNôachNoach, the patriarch of the flood
- בָּקַעbâqaʻto cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open
- שֵׁנִיshênîyproperly, double, i.e. second; also adverbially, again
- שֵׁשׁshêshsix (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Gen 8:2, Pro 8:28–29, Mal 3:10, Amo 9:5–6, Psa 78:23–24, Jer 5:22, 2Ki 7:19, Jer 51:16