Genesis 7:12
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And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

forty.

Genesis 7:4,17 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth. . . .

Exodus 24:18 And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9,18 When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:10 And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and the Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.

1 Kings 19:8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.

Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Context
The Floodwaters Arrive
11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened: 12And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.13In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.…
Cross References
2 Peter 3:6
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

Genesis 7:4
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.

Genesis 8:2
The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

Lexicon
And the rain
הַגֶּ֖שֶׁם (hag·ge·šem)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1653: Rain, shower

fell
וַֽיְהִ֥י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

upon
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the earth
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

forty
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים (’ar·bā·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 705: Forty

days
י֔וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

and forty
וְאַרְבָּעִ֖ים (wə·’ar·bā·‘îm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 705: Forty

nights.
לָֽיְלָה׃ (lā·yə·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3915: A twist, night, adversity


Additional Translations
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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