STRONGS NUMBER H3999

H3999. mabbul

מַבּוּל‎ noun masculine^{Genesis 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 29:10; always absolute and always with article except Genesis 9:11, 15; — הַמּ ׳וַיְהִי‎ 17:7; מ עוֺד יִהְיֶה ׳לֹא‎ 9:11; following by מַיִם‎ as appositive) 6:17; 7:6; הַמּ ׳מֵי‎ 7:7, 10; 9:11; לְמ הַמַּיִם ׳עוֺד לֹאיִֿהְיֶה‎ 9:15; as epoch, in phrase הַמּ ׳אַחַר‎ 9:28; 10:1, 32; 11:10 (strike out as gloss Bu Di); ׳י ׳לַמּ יָשָׁ֑ב‎ Psalm 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 נֹחַ מֵי‎ Isaiah 54:9 (twice in verse)).