Genesis 7:12

Genesis 7:12

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

a. NLT: The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.

b. NIV: And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

c. YLT: And the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

d. Amplified Bible Classic: And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

e. Septuagint: And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

1. “And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”

a. And…was [Strong: 1961 hayah haw-yaw a primitive root (Compare 1933); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary):--beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.]

b. the rain [Strong: 1653 geshem gheh'-shem from 1653; a shower:--rain, shower.]

c. upon [Strong: 5921 `al al properly, the same as 5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications (as follow):--above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, X as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, X both and, by (reason of), X had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-)on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, X with.]

d. the earth [Strong: 776 'erets eh'-rets from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land):--X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.]

e. forty [Strong: 705 'arba`iym ar-baw-eem' multiple of 702; forty:---forty.]

f. days [Strong: 3117 yowm yome from an unused root meaning to be hot; 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 associated term), (often used adverb):--age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.]

g. and forty [Strong: 705 'arba`iym ar-baw-eem' multiple of 702; forty:---forty.]

h. nights [Strong: 3915 layil lah'-yil or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}; also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity:--((mid-))night (season).]

    

1). The Genesis Record, Henry M. Morris: A worldwide rain lasting forty days would be quite impossible under present atmospheric conditions; so this phenomenon required an utterly different source of atmospheric waters than now obtains… The “waters above the firmament” thus probably constituted a vast blanket of water vapor above the troposphere and possibly above the strastosphere as well, in the high-temperature region now knowns as the ionosphere, and extending far into space. They could not have been the clouds of water droplets which now float in the atmosphere, because Scripture says they were “above the firmament.” Furthermore, there was no “rain upon the earth” in those days (Genesis 2:5), nor any “bow in the cloud” (Genesis 9:13), both of which must have been present if these upper waters represented memely the regime of clouds which functions in the present hydrological economy.