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Genesis 7:19

in Genesis 7

Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

KJV

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

This verse in Genesis 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

all the high mountains under all the heavens

on Genesis 7:19-20

The waters cover every high mountain under all the heavens, and the depth over the mountaintops is given as fifteen cubits. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read a measured depth over the summits as language a local flood cannot carry. Other readers take all the heavens as the sky in view and the earth as the land Noah knew. Peter takes the flood as history at 2 Peter 3:6.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

HYMNS ON PARADISE 1.4 · Written before 373.

proposed

With the eye of my mind I gazed upon paradise. The summit of every mountain is lower than its summit, the crest of the flood reached only its foothills, these it kissed with reverence before turning back to rise above and subdue the peak of …

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron) · Written before 735.

proposed

Moreover, the ark was carried above the waters, and the waters prevailed exceedingly, and all the high mountains under the entire heaven were covered.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth,....

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהַמַּ֗יִםand the waters

    vehamayimH4325 →581 times

  • גָּֽבְר֛וּthey increased

    gaveruH1396 →25 times

  • מְאֹ֥דexceedingly

    meodH3966 →300 times

  • מְאֹ֖דexceedingly

    meodH3966 →300 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • וַיְכֻסּ֗וּand they were covered

    vaykhusuH3680 →152 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הֶֽהָרִים֙the mountains

    heharimH2022 →546 times

  • הַגְּבֹהִ֔ים<the> high

    hagevohimH1364 →

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • תַּ֖חַת[were] under

    tachatH8478 →505 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃the heavens

    hashamayimH8064 →421 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 3:23

    Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 121:1–2

      I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

    • Psalms 3:8

      Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah

    • Isaiah 12:2

      Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

    • Hosea 1:7

      Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”

  • Through

    Job 12:15

    If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 17:1

      Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in…

  • Through

    2 Peter 3:6

    through which the world of that time perished in the flood.

    it leads to

    • 2 Peter 2:5

      if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

    • Matthew 24:38–39

      For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

    • Luke 17:27

      People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Great Flood — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Great Flood — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Bede, Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron); Ephrem the Syrian, HYMNS ON PARADISE 1.4; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).