Genesis 7:12 KJV

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

Matthew Henry

Thompson Chains

  • RainStarts here · next 1 Samuel 12:18 · 13 links
  • Forty DaysSee the chain from Genesis 7:17 · 11 links

Cross References

  • Genesis 7:4 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.
  • Genesis 7:17 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.
  • Exodus 24:18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
  • Deuteronomy 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
  • Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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Topics

  • Ark Animals saved in
  • Flood History of Flood
  • God To Noah and his family, at the time of the flood
  • Miracles The great flood
  • Noah Builds an ark (ship) and saves his family from the great flood

Timeline

Hebrew and Strong’s

  • And the rain וַיְהִי wayhî Verb · qal sequential imperfect, third person masculine singular · with and הַגֶּשֶׁם haggešem גֶּשֶׁם Noun · masculine singular · with the
  • was upon the earth עַל ʿal Preposition הָאָרֶץ hāʾāreṣ אֶרֶץ Noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the
  • forty אַרְבָּעִים ʾarbāʿîm אַרְבָּעִים Number · masculine or feminine plural
  • days יוֹם yôm יוֹם Noun · masculine singular
  • and forty וְאַרְבָּעִים wĕʾarbāʿîm אַרְבָּעִים Number · masculine or feminine plural · with and
  • nights לָיְלָה lāyĕlâ לַיִל Noun · masculine singular

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0

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