מַבּוּל

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