Genesis 7:20 KJV

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Words Then and Now

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Matthew Henry

  • The increase of the flood for forty daysThe flood was increasing forty days. The waters rose so high, that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed more than twenty feet. There is no place...

Cross References

  • Psalms 104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
  • Jeremiah 3:23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

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Topics

  • 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
  • Rain Forty days of, at the time of the great flood of Noah

Timeline

Hebrew and Strong’s

  • Fifteen חֲמֵשׁ ḥămēš חָמֵשׁ Number · feminine singular עֶשְׂרֵה ʿeśrê עָשָׂר Number · feminine singular
  • cubits אַמָּה ʾammâ אַמָּה Noun · feminine singular
  • upward מִלְמַעְלָה milmaʿlâ מַעַל Adverb · with preposition, preposition, ending: toward
  • did the waters הַמָּיִם hammāyim מַיִם Noun · masculine plural · with the
  • prevail גָּבְרוּ gābĕrû גָּבַר Verb · qal perfect, third person common plural
  • and the mountains הֶהָרִים hehārîm הַר Noun · masculine plural · with the
  • were covered וַיְכֻסּוּ waykussû כָּסָה Verb · pual sequential imperfect, third person masculine plural · with and

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

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