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Genesis 7:17 Interlinear

“ And the flood was forty days above the earth increased and the waters and bare up the ark and it was lift up above the earth”

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Genesis 7 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	וַיְהִ֧י	H1961		to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
2	הַמַּבּ֛וּל	H3999	And the flood	a deluge
3	אַרְבָּעִ֥ים	H705	was forty	forty
4	י֖וֹם	H3117	days	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 asso
5	עַל	H5921		above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
6	הָאָֽרֶץ׃	H776	above the earth	the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
7	וַיִּרְבּ֣וּ	H7235	increased	to increase (in whatever respect)
8	הַמַּ֗יִם	H4325	and the waters	water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
9	וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙	H5375	and bare up	to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
10	אֶת	H853		properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
11	הַתֵּבָ֔ה	H8392	the ark	a box
12	וַתָּ֖רָם	H7311	and it was lift up	to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
13	מֵעַ֥ל	H5921		above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
14	הָאָֽרֶץ׃	H776	above the earth	the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

Genesis 7:17 (current) And the flood was forty days above the earth increased and the waters and bare up the ark and it was lift up above the earth