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Genesis 7

Gen. 7:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the rain
geshem (Hebrew #1653)
a shower
KJV usage: rain, shower.
Pronounce: gheh'-shem
Origin: from 1652
was upon the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
forty
'arba`iym (Hebrew #705)
forty
KJV usage: -forty.
Pronounce: ar-baw-eem'
Origin: multiple of 702
days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
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 associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
and forty
'arba`iym (Hebrew #705)
forty
KJV usage: -forty.
Pronounce: ar-baw-eem'
Origin: multiple of 702
nights
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
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Cross References

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Gen. 7:4,17• 4For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.
 17And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth. (Gen. 7:4,17)
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Ex. 24:18• 18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. (Ex. 24:18)
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Deut. 9:9,18• 9when I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, and I abode in the mountain forty days and forty nights,--I ate no bread and drank no water,--
 18And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights,--I ate no bread and drank no water,--because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. (Deut. 9:9,18)
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Deut. 10:10• 10But I stood upon the mountain according to the former days, forty days and forty nights; and Jehovah listened unto me also at that time: Jehovah would not destroy thee. (Deut. 10:10)
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1 Kings 19:8• 8And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God. (1 Kings 19:8)
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Matt. 4:2• 2and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered. (Matt. 4:2)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.