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Genesis 7

Gen. 7:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And every living substance
yquwm (Hebrew #3351)
properly, standing (extant), i.e. by implication, a living thing
KJV usage: (living) substance.
Pronounce: yek-oom'
Origin: from 6965
was destroyed
machah (Hebrew #4229)
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
KJV usage: abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, X utterly, wipe (away, out).
Pronounce: maw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
which was upon the face
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
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.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
of the ground
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
, both man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
, and cattle
bhemah (Hebrew #929)
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
KJV usage: beast, cattle.
Pronounce: be-hay-maw'
Origin: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
, and the creeping things
remes (Hebrew #7431)
a reptile or any other rapidly moving animal
KJV usage: that creepeth, creeping (moving) thing.
Pronounce: reh'-mes
Origin: from 7430
, and the fowl
`owph (Hebrew #5775)
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
KJV usage: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
Pronounce: ofe
Origin: from 5774
of the heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
; and they were destroyed
machah (Hebrew #4229)
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
KJV usage: abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, X utterly, wipe (away, out).
Pronounce: maw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
from 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
: and Noah
Noach (Hebrew #5146)
rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood
KJV usage: Noah.
Pronounce: no'-akh
Origin: the same as 5118
h only
'ak (Hebrew #389)
a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only
KJV usage: also, in any wise, at least, but, certainly, even, howbeit, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, surely, of a surety, truly, verily, + wherefore, yet (but).
Pronounce: ak
Origin: akin to 403
remained
sha'ar (Hebrew #7604)
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
KJV usage: leave, (be) left, let, remain, remnant, reserve, the rest.
Pronounce: shaw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
alive, and they that
'aher (Hebrew #834)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
KJV usage: X after, X alike, as (soon as), because, X every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), X if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), X though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(- soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
Pronounce: ash-er'
Origin: a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number)
were with him in the ark
tebah (Hebrew #8392)
a box
KJV usage: ark.
Pronounce: tay-baw'
Origin: perhaps of foreign derivation
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Ezek. 14:14,20• 14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, should be in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 20and Noah, Daniel, and Job should be in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter: they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. (Ezek. 14:14,20)
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Mal. 3:17‑18• 17And they shall be unto me a peculiar treasure, saith Jehovah of hosts, in the day that I prepare; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
 18And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (Mal. 3:17‑18)

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Cross References

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every living substance.The most incontestable evidence has been afforded of the universality of this fact:
the moose deer, a native of America, has been found buried in Ireland; elephants, native of Asia and Africa, in the midst of England; crocodiles, natives of the Nile, in the heart of Germany; and shell fish, never known in any but the American seas, with the entire skeletons of whales, in the most inland counties of England.
Gen. 7:21‑22• 21And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:
 22everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. (Gen. 7:21‑22)
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Job 22:15‑17• 15Dost thou mark the ancient path which wicked men have trodden?
 16Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;
 17Who said unto *God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do to them? (Job 22:15‑17)
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Isa. 24:1‑8• 1Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
 2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.
 3The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
 4The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.
 5And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
 6Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.
 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;
 8the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. (Isa. 24:1‑8)
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Matt. 24:37‑39• 37But as the days of Noe, so also shall be the coming of the Son of man.
 38For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,
 39and they knew not till the flood came and took all away; thus also shall be the coming of the Son of man. (Matt. 24:37‑39)
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Luke 17:26‑27• 26And as it took place in the days of Noe, thus also shall it be in the days of the Son of man:
 27they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them; (Luke 17:26‑27)
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1 Peter 3:20• 20heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: (1 Peter 3:20)
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2 Peter 2:5• 5and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (2 Peter 2:5)
and Noah.
Ex. 14:28‑30• 28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the host of Pharaoh that had come into the sea after them; there remained not even one of them.
 29And the children of Israel walked on dry ground through the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
 30Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore. (Ex. 14:28‑30)
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Job 5:19• 19He will deliver thee in six troubles, and in seven there shall no evil touch thee. (Job 5:19)
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Psa. 91:1,9‑10• 1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
 9Because *thou* hast made Jehovah, my refuge, the Most High, thy dwelling-place,
 10There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent. (Psa. 91:1,9‑10)
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Prov. 11:4• 4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death. (Prov. 11:4)
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Ezek. 14:14‑20• 14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, should be in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 15If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they bereave it, and it become a desolation, so that no one passeth through because of the beasts;
 16--though these three men should be in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters: they only should be delivered, and the land should be a desolation.
 17Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off man and beast from it,
 18and these three men should be in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only themselves should be delivered.
 19Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
 20and Noah, Daniel, and Job should be in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter: they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. (Ezek. 14:14‑20)
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Mal. 3:17‑18• 17And they shall be unto me a peculiar treasure, saith Jehovah of hosts, in the day that I prepare; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
 18And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (Mal. 3:17‑18)
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Matt. 25:46• 46And these shall go away into eternal punishment, and the righteous into life eternal. (Matt. 25:46)
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Heb. 11:7• 7By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. (Heb. 11:7)
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1 Peter 3:20• 20heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: (1 Peter 3:20)
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2 Peter 2:5,9• 5and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
 9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished; (2 Peter 2:5,9)
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2 Peter 3:6• 6through which waters the then world, deluged with water, perished. (2 Peter 3:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.