King James Version
Genesis 7:12 in the King James Version says “And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”
Genesis 7:12 · KJV
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. after: or, on the seventh day
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. windows: or, floodgates
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. sort: Heb. wing
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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“days”
H3117a 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
“nights”
H3915properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity
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