Bible Dictionary: Forty: Days of Rain, at the Time of the Flood

◄ Forty: Days of Rain, at the Time of the Flood ►

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Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
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'Clear Shining after Rain'
... grounded, and the two sources, the rain from above ... The length of time required for
the restorative process ... Not till 'forty days'"a round number"after the ...
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Noah and the Great Flood
... earth, and the flood went down, the rain from heaven ... After forty days Noah opened
the window of the ark and ... And he waited seven days more and again sent out ...
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The Story of Noah and the Ark
... After forty days the rain stopped, but ... From this time no flood shall again cover
the earth; but the seasons of spring and summer and fall and winter, shall ...
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Here Beginneth the History of Noah
... In which time Noah oft desired the people to leave their sin, and how he had spoken ...
Yet after seven days I shall rain upon the earth forty days and forty ...
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Noah's Flood
... what means God used to make it rain forty days; what is ... must have been caused by
clouds and rain; and there must ... for their falling at that place and that time? ...
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Chapter vii
... Since the verb gabhar is used (v.18) of the time before the waters ... maximum, we feel
sure that the 150 days must include the forty days of rain mentioned v.12 ...
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Concerning the Flood; and after what Manner Noah was Saved in an ...
... 5. When God gave the signal, and it began to rain, the water poured down forty
entire days, till it became fifteen cubits higher than the earth ...
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Sovereignty of God in Administration
... and how would they occupy their time the balance of the week? ... And the rain was upon
the earth forty days and forty nights" (Gen.6:17 and 7:11, 12). ...
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"Come Thou and all Thy House into the Ark. "
... soon go down; but it rains on, day and night, for forty days and forty nights, and ...
all thy house, into the ark." Twenty four hours before the rain began to ...
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The Survival of the Fittest.
... came as the result of a forty days' rain; but according ... 17, the flood continued on
the earth forty days; while according ... and at intervals of seven days he sent ...
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