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Genesis 7

Gen. 7:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And every living substance
yquwm (Hebrew #3351)
properly, standing (extant), i.e. by implication, a living thing
KJV usage: (living) substance.
Pronounce: yek-oom'
Origin: from 6965
was destroyed
machah (Hebrew #4229)
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
KJV usage: abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, X utterly, wipe (away, out).
Pronounce: maw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
which was upon the face
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
of the ground
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
, both man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
, and cattle
bhemah (Hebrew #929)
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
KJV usage: beast, cattle.
Pronounce: be-hay-maw'
Origin: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
, and the creeping things
remes (Hebrew #7431)
a reptile or any other rapidly moving animal
KJV usage: that creepeth, creeping (moving) thing.
Pronounce: reh'-mes
Origin: from 7430
, and the fowl
`owph (Hebrew #5775)
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
KJV usage: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
Pronounce: ofe
Origin: from 5774
of the heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the 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 revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
; and they were destroyed
machah (Hebrew #4229)
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
KJV usage: abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, X utterly, wipe (away, out).
Pronounce: maw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
from the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
: and Noah
Noach (Hebrew #5146)
rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood
KJV usage: Noah.
Pronounce: no'-akh
Origin: the same as 5118
h only
'ak (Hebrew #389)
a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only
KJV usage: also, in any wise, at least, but, certainly, even, howbeit, nevertheless, notwithstanding, only, save, surely, of a surety, truly, verily, + wherefore, yet (but).
Pronounce: ak
Origin: akin to 403
remained
sha'ar (Hebrew #7604)
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
KJV usage: leave, (be) left, let, remain, remnant, reserve, the rest.
Pronounce: shaw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
alive, and they that
'aher (Hebrew #834)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
KJV usage: X after, X alike, as (soon as), because, X every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), X if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), X though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(- soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
Pronounce: ash-er'
Origin: a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number)
were with him in the ark
tebah (Hebrew #8392)
a box
KJV usage: ark.
Pronounce: tay-baw'
Origin: perhaps of foreign derivation
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Ezek. 14:14,20• 14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 20though Noah, Daniel and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. (Ezek. 14:14,20)
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Mal. 3:17‑18• 17And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
 18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (Mal. 3:17‑18)

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Cross References

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every living substance.The most incontestable evidence has been afforded of the universality of this fact:
the moose deer, a native of America, has been found buried in Ireland; elephants, native of Asia and Africa, in the midst of England; crocodiles, natives of the Nile, in the heart of Germany; and shell fish, never known in any but the American seas, with the entire skeletons of whales, in the most inland counties of England.
Gen. 7:21‑22• 21And all flesh that moved upon the earth expired, bird and cattle and beast and all the creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all mankind:
 22all died which [had] breath of spirit of life, of all that [was] in dry [land]. (Gen. 7:21‑22)
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Job 22:15‑17• 15Wilt thou keep to the old way{HR}Which men of iniquity trod,
 16Who were snatched away untimely:{HR}A flood was poured on their foundation;
 17Who were saying to God, Depart from us,{HR}And what could the Almighty do for them? (Job 22:15‑17)
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Isa. 24:1‑8• 1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
 2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.
 3The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
 4The earth mourneth, it fadeth away: the world languisheth, it fadeth away; the haughty people of the earth do languish,
 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, for they have transgressed the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
 6Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry hearted do sigh.
 8The mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. (Isa. 24:1‑8)
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Matt. 24:37‑39• 37But as the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man;
 38for as in those days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
 39and they knew not until the flood came and took them all away, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. (Matt. 24:37‑39)
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Luke 17:26‑27• 26And as it took place in the days of Noah, thus also shall it be in the days of the Son of man:
 27they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all [of them]. (Luke 17:26‑27)
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1 Peter 3:20• 20disobedient aforetime when the long-suffering of God was waiting in Noah's days, while an ark was being prepared, in which few, that is eight souls, were brought safe through water; (1 Peter 3:20)
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2 Peter 2:5• 5and spared not an ancient world but preserved Noah an eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought a flood upon a world of ungodly ones; (2 Peter 2:5)
and Noah.
Ex. 14:28‑30• 28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the host of Pharaoh that had come into the sea after them; there remained not even one of them.
 29And the children of Israel walked on dry ground through the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
 30Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore. (Ex. 14:28‑30)
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Job 5:19• 19In six troubles he will deliver thee,{HR}And in seven no evil shall befall thee. (Job 5:19)
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Psa. 91:1,9‑10• 1He that dwelleth in covert of the Most High{HR}Abideth in the shadow of the Almighty.
 9Because thou hast made Jehovah, my refuge,{HR}The Most High, thy habitation,
 10No evil shall befall thee,{HR}And no plague shall draw near thy tent. (Psa. 91:1,9‑10)
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Prov. 11:4• 4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath;{HR}But righteousness delivereth from death. (Prov. 11:4)
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Ezek. 14:14‑20• 14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 15If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
 16though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
 17Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
 18though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
 19Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
 20though Noah, Daniel and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. (Ezek. 14:14‑20)
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Mal. 3:17‑18• 17And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
 18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (Mal. 3:17‑18)
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Matt. 25:46• 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life everlasting. (Matt. 25:46)
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Heb. 11:7• 7By faith Noah, oracularly warned of things not yet beheld, moved with fear, constructed an ark for saving his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of righteousness that is according to faith. (Heb. 11:7)
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1 Peter 3:20• 20disobedient aforetime when the long-suffering of God was waiting in Noah's days, while an ark was being prepared, in which few, that is eight souls, were brought safe through water; (1 Peter 3:20)
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2 Peter 2:5,9• 5and spared not an ancient world but preserved Noah an eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought a flood upon a world of ungodly ones;
 9[the] Lord knoweth to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep unjust [men] for judgment-day to be punished; (2 Peter 2:5,9)
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2 Peter 3:6• 6by which [waters] the then world being overflowed with water perished. (2 Peter 3:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.

W. Kelly Translation

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And every living substance which [was] on the face of the ground from man to cattle and to reptile and to bird of the heavens; and they were blotted out from the earth; and Noah only remained, and what [was] with him in the ark.