Gen 7:4: "I am sending rain"; "all that exists"
Says כִּי לְיָמִים עוֹד שִׁבְעָה, "for in yet seven days" ("For seven days from now," BSB), אָנֹכִי מַמְטִיר, "I am sending rain," with a Hiphil participle (BDB "send rain, rain"), עַל־הָאָרֶץ, "on the earth," אַרְבָּעִים יוֹם וְאַרְבָּעִים לָיְלָה, "forty days and forty nights." Then וּמָחִיתִי, "and I will wipe out" (BDB "wipe, wipe out"), the verb of 6:7 (note.language.Gen.6.5-Gen.6.7.regret-nhm), with אֶת־כָּל־הַיְקוּם, "all that exists" ("every living thing," BSB). For יְקוּם BDB has "substance, existence"; it occurs only here, in 7:23 and in Deut 11:6. Then אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתִי, "that I have made," מֵעַל פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה, "from upon the face of the ground." Swete has ἐγὼ ἐπάγω ὑετὸν, "I am bringing rain," and ἐξαλείψω πᾶν τὸ ἀνάστεμα, "I will wipe out everything that has risen up."
Claims
- Saysכִּי לְיָמִים עוֹד שִׁבְעָה; מַמְטִיר Hiphil participle (BDB "send rain, rain"); forty days and nights; וּמָחִיתִי (BDB "wipe, wipe out"), the verb of 6:7; יְקוּם (BDB "substance, existence"), only here, 7:23, Deut 11:6; Swete ἐπάγω ὑετὸν, ἐξαλείψω πᾶν τὸ ἀνάστεμα.
Citations
- OSHB CC BY 4.0 Gen 7:4 (WLC/OSHB; morph HVhrmsa (H4305), HC/Vqp1cs (H4229), HTd/Ncmsa (H3351))
- OSHB CC BY 4.0 Gen 7:23; Deut 11:6 (OSHB lemma H3351)
- BDB CC BY 4.0 s.v. H4305, p. 565, entry m.bs.ab; BDB 1906 page image, archive.org hebrewenglishlex00browuoft, leaf n588
- BDB CC BY 4.0 s.v. H4229a, p. 562, entry m.bl.aa; BDB 1906 page image, archive.org hebrewenglishlex00browuoft, leaf n585
- BDB CC BY 4.0 s.v. H3351, p. 879, entry s.av.ai; BDB 1906 page image, archive.org hebrewenglishlex00browuoft, leaf n902
- LXX (Swete) CC BY-SA 4.0 Gen 7:4. LXX read on the Swete page image, vol. 1 (1901), pp. 10–11 (leaves n41–n42).
- BSB public domain Gen 7:4
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