Genesis 8:3New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of an hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— and the waters returned from off the earth, they went on returning,—and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And the waters returned from off the earth, continually: and after the end of the hundred and fiftie dayes, the waters were abated.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And the waters receded from the earth gradually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty clays the waters abated.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. |
And the waters
4325 {4325} Primeמַיִםmayim{mah'-yim}
Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively juice; by euphemism urine, semen.
returned
7725 {7725} Primeשׁוּבshuwb{shoob}
A primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbially again.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
from off
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
x5921 (5921) Complementעַל`al{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation 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.
the earth
776 {0776} Primeאֶרֶץ'erets{eh'-rets}
From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land).
continually:
1980 {1980} Primeהָלַךְhalak{haw-lak'}
Akin to H3212; a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively).
7725 {7725} Primeשׁוּבshuwb{shoob}
A primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbially again.
z8800 <8800> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 4888
and after the end
7097 {7097} Primeקָצֶהqatseh{kaw-tseh'}
The second form is negative only; from H7096; an extremity (used in a great variety of applications and idioms; compare H7093).
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
of the hundred
3967 {3967} Primeמֵאָהme'ah{may-aw'}
Probably a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction.
and fifty
2572 {2572} Primeחֲמִשִּׁיםchamishshiym{kham-ish-sheem'}
Multiple of H2568; fifty.
days
3117 {3117} Primeיוֹםyowm{yome}
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially).
the waters
4325 {4325} Primeמַיִםmayim{mah'-yim}
Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively juice; by euphemism urine, semen.
were abated.
2637 {2637} Primeחָסֵרchacer{khaw-sare'}
A primitive root; to lack; by implication to fail, want, lessen.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885 |
Genesis 8:3
The waters returned from off the earth continually — Heb. they were going and returning; a gradual departure. The heat of the sun exhaled much, and perhaps the subterraneous caverns soaked in more. |
- continually:
- Heb. in going and returning
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- hundred:
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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