Lexical Summary mabbul: a flood Original Word: מַבּוּלTransliteration: mabbul Phonetic Spelling: (mab-bool') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a flood Meaning: flood -- a deluge Strong's Concordance a deluge From yabal in the sense of flowing; a deluge: see HEBREW yabal Brown-Driver-Briggs H3999. mabbul מַבּוּל noun masculineGenesis 7:6 flood in time of Noah (Late Hebrew id.; Jewish-Aramaic מַבּוּלָא; Syriac ; derivation dubious; Thes and others √ יבל, but improbable, see DlProl. 122 f.; possibly old Assyrian (Babylonian) loan-word (yet form unkn. in Assyrian ), or from √ נבל = Assyrian nabâlu, destroy DlHWB 443 f.; compare DlPar. 156; Prol. 122 ChePsalm 29:10 critical note, Hebraica. iii. 3, 175 f., O. WhitehouseCOT ii. 293); — ׳מ only Genesis and 29:10; always absolute and always with article except Genesis 9:11, 15; — הַמּ ׳וַיְהִי 17:7; מ עוֺד יִהְיֶה ׳לֹא 9:11; following by מַיִם as appositive) 6:17; 7:6; הַמּ ׳מֵי 7:7, 10; 9:11; לְמ הַמַּיִם ׳עוֺד לֹאיִֿהְיֶה 9:15; as epoch, in phrase הַמּ ׳אַחַר 9:28; 10:1, 32; 11:10 (strike out as gloss Bu Di); ׳י ׳לַמּ יָשָׁ֑ב Psalm 29:10 ׳י at the flood sat enthroned (so most; Chesee critical note ' at the storm ' (destruction = destructive storm IdHebraica. 1.c.), but ׳הַמּ seems in all the other passages to be almost = proper name of the flood; compare also נֹחַ מֵי Isaiah 54:9 (twice in verse)). |
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