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title: מַבּוּל — flood · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַבּוּל (3999), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: flood. BDB 1906: n.m. flood. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַבּוּל

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«מַבּוּל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flood** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** 3999 · **BDB:** מַבּוּל

### Glosses

flood (9); the.flood (3); a.flood (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flood [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3999/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. flood [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3999/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 7:6 flood in time of Noah (NH id.; Jew.-Aramaic; מַבּוּלָא; Syriac ܡܳܡܽܘܠܴܐ; der. dub.; Thes al. √ יבל, but improb., v. DlProl. 122 f.; poss. old Assyrian (Bab.) loan-word (yet form unkn. in Assyrian), or from √ נבל = Assyrian nabâlu, destroy DlHWB443 f.; cf. DlPar. 156; Prol. 122 Che ψ 29, 10 crit. n., Hbr. iii. 3, 175 f., O. WhitehouseCOT ii. 293);—מ׳ only Gn and ψ 29:10; always abs. and always c. art. except Gn 9:11, 15;—וַיְהִי הַמּ׳ Gn 7:17; לֹא יִהְיֶה עוֹד מ׳ 9:11; foll. by מַיִם as appos. Gn 6:17; 7:6; מֵי הַמּ׳ Gn 7:7, 10; 9:11; לֹא־יִהְיֶה עוֹד הַמַּיִם לְמ׳ Gn 9:15; as epoch, in phr. אַחַר הַמּ׳ Gn 9:28; 10:1, 32; 11:10 (del. as gloss Bu Di); י׳ לַמּ׳ יָשָׁ֑ב ψ 29:10 י׳ at the flood sat enthroned (so most; Che v. crit. n. ‘at the storm’ (destruction = destructive storm IdHbrl.c.), but הַמּ׳ seems in all the other passages to be almost = n.pr. of the flood; cf. also מֵי נֹחַ Is 54:9(×2)).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַבּוּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3999/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 29:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.29.10/)

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יְ֭הוָה לַמַּבּ֣וּל יָשָׁ֑ב וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב יְ֝הוָ֗ה מֶ֣לֶךְ לְעוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh to the flood he.sat and he.sat Yahweh king forever of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* The LORD sat enthroned at the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth as King for ever.

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[Genesis 9:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.28/)

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וַֽיְחִי־נֹ֖חַ אַחַ֣ר הַמַּבּ֑וּל שְׁלֹ֤שׁ מֵאוֹת֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וַֽחֲמִשִּׁ֖ים שָׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Noah after the flood three hundred(s) year\[s\] and fifty year\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

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