Genesis 7 · Verse 17

Genesis 7:17

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Genesis 7:17, King James Version

Genesis 7:17 in other translations

BSBFor forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
WEBThe flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
ASVAnd the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
YLTAnd the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;
DARBYAnd the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.
BBEAnd for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
WebsterAnd the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted above the earth.

What does Genesis 7:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
17. the waters increased, and bare up the ark--It seems to have been raised so gradually as to be scarcely perceptible to its occupants.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 7:17-20
The flood was increasing forty days. The waters rose so high, that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed more than twenty feet. There is no place on earth so high as to set men out of the reach of God's judgments. God's hand will find out all his enemies, Psa 21:8. When the flood thus increased, Noah's ark was lifted up, and the waters which broke down every thing else, bore up the ark. That which to unbelievers betokens death unto death, to the faithful betokens life unto life.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Genesis 7:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַֽיְהִ֧יvay.Hiand it wasH1961
הַמַּבּ֛וּלha.ma.Bulthe floodH3999
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705
י֖וֹםYomday[s]H3117
עַל\־'al-onH5921
הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe earthH776
וַיִּרְבּ֣וּvai.yir.Buand they increasedH7235
הַמַּ֗יִםha.Ma.yimthe watersH4325
וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙vai.yis.'Uand they liftedH5375
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַתֵּבָ֔הha.te.Vahthe arkH8392
וַתָּ֖רָםva.Ta.romand it roseH7311
מֵעַ֥לme.'Alfrom onH5921
הָאָֽרֶץ\׃ha.'A.retzthe earthH776

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 7:17

  • Genesis 7:4

    For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

  • Genesis 7:12

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

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Context

  • Genesis 7:16

    And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.

  • Genesis 7:17

    And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

  • Genesis 7:18

    And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

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Genesis 7:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y fué el diluvio cuarenta días sobre la tierra; y las aguas crecieron, y alzaron el arca, y se elevó sobre la tierra.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et le déluge fut sur la terre 40 jours; et les eaux crûrent et soulevèrent l’arche, et elle fut élevée au-dessus de la terre.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und die Flut kam vierzig Tage lang über die Erde. Und die Wasser mehrten sich und hoben die Arche empor; und sie erhob sich über die Erde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Factumque est diluvium quadraginta diebus super terram: et multiplicatæ sunt aquæ, et elevaverunt arcam in sublime a terra.