King James Version
Genesis 8:2 in the King James Version says “The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;”
Genesis 8:2 · KJV
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
And the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. continually: Heb. in going and returning
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“The fountains”
H4599a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction)
“also of the deep”
H8415an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
“and the windows”
H699a lattice; (by implication) a window, dovecot (because of the pigeon-holes), chimney (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water)
“from heaven”
H8064the 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 r
“from heaven”
H8064the 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 r
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