Genesis 8:2 BSB — MannaFest

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9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּסָּֽכְרוּ֙	vai.yi.sa.khe.Ru	and they were shut up	H5534 →
מַעְיְנֹ֣ת	ma'.ye.Not	[the] springs of	H4599 →
תְּה֔וֹם	te.Hom	[the] deep	H8415 →
וַֽאֲרֻבֹּ֖ת	va.'a.ru.Bot	and [the] floodgates of	H699 →
הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם	ha.sha.Ma.yim	the heavens	H8064 →
וַיִּכָּלֵ֥א	vai.yi.ka.Le'	and it was restrained	H3607 →
הַגֶּ֖שֶׁם	ha.Ge.shem	the rain	H1653 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃	ha.sha.Ma.yim	the heavens	H8064 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H8415tehom[the] deep36×

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
leads to
- Proverbs 8:28–29
  when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
- Malachi 3:10
  Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of…
- Amos 9:5–6
  The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
- Jeremiah 5:22
  Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves…
- Jeremiah 51:16
  When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from…
Through
Job 38:37
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
leads to
- Psalms 147:4
  He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.
- Genesis 9:15
  I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
- Genesis 15:5
  And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.Matthew 8:26–27“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.Proverbs 8:28when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,Job 37:11–13He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.Job 38:37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.Matthew 8:9For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”

A mirrored structure
Genesis 7:11
Mirror members of the Flood palistrophe: 'the fountains of the great deep burst open and the windows of heaven were opened' is reversed by 'the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed'. Verbatim reversal (Welch objectivity high). Level=pericope/book
Gordon J. Wenham, 'The Coherence of the Flood Narrative,' Vetus Testamentum 28 (1978): 336-348

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