BDB4499 [H3999]

מַבּוּל noun masculine^{Gen 7:6} flood in time of Noah (Late Hebrew id.; Jewish-Aramaic מַבּוּלָא; Syriac ; derivation dubious; Thes and others √ יבל, but improbable, see Dl^{Prol. 122 f.}; possibly old Assyrian (Babylonian) loan-word (yet form unkn. in Assyrian ), or from √ נבל = Assyrian nabâlu, destroy Dl^{HWB 443 f.}; compare Dl^{Par. 156; Prol. 122} Che^{Psalm 29:10 critical note, Hebraica. iii. 3, 175 f.}, O. Whitehouse^{COT ii. 293}); — ׳מ only Genesis and Ps 29:10 always absolute and always with article except Gen 9:11; Gen 9:15 — ׳וַיְהִי הַמּ Gen 17:7 ׳לֹא יִהְיֶה עוֺד מ Gen 9:11 following by מַיִם as appositive) Gen 6:17; Gen 7:6 ׳מֵי הַמּ Gen 7:7; Gen 7:10; Gen 9:11 לֹאיִֿהְיֶה ׳עוֺד הַמַּיִם לְמ Gen 9:15 as epoch, in phrase ׳אַחַר הַמּ Gen 9:28; Gen 10:1; Gen 10:32; Gen 11:10 (strike out as gloss Bu Di); יָשָׁ֑ב ׳לַמּ ׳י Ps 29:10 ׳י at the flood sat enthroned (so most; Che^{see critical note} ' at the storm ' (destruction = destructive storm Id^{Hebraica. 1.c}.), but ׳הַמּ seems in all the other passages to be almost = proper name of the flood; compare also מֵי נֹחַ Isa 54:9 (twice in verse)).

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