Genesis 7:24
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And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:3,4 And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days. . . .

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Genesis 7:11 In 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:

of this chapter. The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, and the raining forty days and nights, had raised the waters fifteen cubits, or twenty-two feet and a half, above the highest mountain; after which forty days, it appears to have continued at this height one hundred and fifty days more.

Context
The Duration of the Flood
23And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark. 24And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
Cross References
Genesis 8:3
And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:

Lexicon
And the waters
הַמַּ֖יִם (ham·ma·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

prevailed
וַיִּגְבְּר֥וּ (way·yiḡ·bə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1396: To be strong, to prevail, act insolently

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

for 150
וּמְאַ֖ת (ū·mə·’aṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3967: A hundred

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


Additional Translations
And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.And the waters prevailed on the earth an hundred and fifty days.

And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

And the water was raised over the earth an hundred and fifty days.

And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.
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