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Genesis 7:23
“And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4229 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, [idiom] utterly, wipe (away, out).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּ֜מַח — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 36 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 6:7Genesis 7:4Exodus 17:14Exodus 17:14Exodus 32:32
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָחָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.