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Genesis 8:1

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And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.	And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;	The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And God^H430 remembered^H2142 Noah^H5146, and every living thing^H2416, and all the cattle^H929 that was with him in the ark^H8392: and God^H430 made^H5674 a wind^H7307 to pass^H5674 over^H5921 the earth^H776, and the waters^H4325 asswaged^H7918;

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Original Hebrew

וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת־נֹחַ וְאֵת כָּל־הַחַיָּה וְאֶת־כָּל־הַבְּהֵמָה אֲשֶׁר אִתֹּו בַּתֵּבָה וַיַּעֲבֵר אֱלֹהִים רוּחַ עַל־הָאָרֶץ וַיָּשֹׁכּוּ הַמָּיִם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יִּזְכֹּ֤ר	va/i.yiz.Kor	H2142	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he remembered
אֱלֹהִים֙	'E.lo.Him	H430	HNcmpa	God
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
נֹ֔חַ	No.ach	H5146	HNp	Noah
וְ/אֵ֤ת	ve./'Et	H853	HC/To	and/ (obj.)
כָּל	kol-	H3605	HNcmsc	every
הַֽ/חַיָּה֙	ha./chai.Yah	H2416	HTd/Ncfsa	(the)/ animal
וְ/אֶת	ve./'Et	H853	HC/To	and/ (obj.)
כָּל	kol-	H3605	HNcmsc	all
הַ/בְּהֵמָ֔ה	ha./be.he.Mah	H929	HTd/Ncfsa	the/ livestock
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	H834	HTr	which
אִתּ֖/וֹ	'i.T/o	H854	HR/Sp3ms	(were) with/ him
בַּ/תֵּבָ֑ה	ba./te.Vah	H8392	HRd/Ncfsa	in the/ ark
וַ/יַּעֲבֵ֨ר	va/i.ya.'a.Ver	H5674	HC/Vhw3ms	and/ he made to pass
אֱלֹהִ֥ים	'E.lo.Him	H430	HNcmpa	God
ר֨וּחַ֙	Ru.ach	H7307	HNcbsa	a wind
עַל	'al-	H5921	HR	over
הָ/אָ֔רֶץ	ha./'A.retz	H776	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ earth
וַ/יָּשֹׁ֖כּוּ	va/i.ya.Sho.ku	H7918	HC/Vqw3mp	and/ they subsided
הַ/מָּֽיִם	ha./Ma.yim	H4325	HTd/Ncmpa	the/ waters

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

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Strong's References

• H430 — אֱלֹהִים (ʼĕlôhîym, el-o-heem'): plural of אֱלוֹהַּ; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative; angels, [idiom] exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), [idiom] (very) great, judges, [idiom] mighty.
• H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
• H929 — בְּהֵמָה (bᵉhêmâh, be-hay-maw'): from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective); beast, cattle.
• H2142 — זָכַר (zâkar, zaw-kar'): a primitive root; also as denominative from זָכָר; properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male; [idiom] burn (incense), [idiom] earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, [idiom] still, think on, [idiom] well.
• H2416 — חַי (chay, khah'-ee): from חָיָה; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively; [phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, [phrase] merry, multitude, [phrase] (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
• H4325 — מַיִם (mayim, mah'-yim): dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen; [phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
• H5146 — נֹחַ (Nôach, no'-akh): the same as נוּחַ; rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood; Noah.
• H5674 — עָבַר (ʻâbar, aw-bar'): a primitive root; to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation); alienate, alter, [idiom] at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-) come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) [phrase] proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, [phrase] raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, [phrase] shave, cause to (make) sound, [idiom] speedily, [idiom] sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-) faring man, be wrath.
• H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.
• H7307 — רוּחַ (rûwach, roo'-akh): from רוּחַ; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions); air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).
• H7918 — שָׁכַךְ (shâkak, shaw-kak'): a primitive root; to weave (i.e. lay) a trap; figuratively, (through the idea of secreting) to allay (passions; physically, abate a flood); appease, assuage, make to cease, pacify, set.
• H8392 — תֵּבָה (têbâh, tay-baw'): perhaps of foreign derivation; a box; ark.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
• H854 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): probably from אָנָה; properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.; against, among, before, by, for, from, in(-to), (out) of, with. Often with another prepositional prefix.
• H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).

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