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'Waters' in the Bible

And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

And 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.

And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;

But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters

These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

So the Lord says, By this you may be certain that I am the Lord; see, by the touch of this rod in my hand the waters of the Nile will be turned to blood;

And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.

And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood;

And when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and all the land of Egypt was covered with them.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the sea, and the waters will come back again on the Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and on their horsemen.

And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen.

But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.

By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land.

And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.

And they came to Elim where there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees: and they put up their tents there by the waters.

This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.

They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)

You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their war-carriages; how he made the waters of the Red Sea come up over them when they went after you, and how the Lord put an end to them even to this day;

And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.

And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah;

And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth,

And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further.

And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.

And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water (for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting),

Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever.

And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before.

For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across:

Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.

So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them.

Then the line goes up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so to the north, in the direction of Gilgal, which is opposite the slope up to Adummim, on the south side of the river: and the line goes on to the waters of En-shemesh, ending at En-rogel:

And the limit is marked out from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and out to the towns of Mount Ephron, as far as Baalah (which is Kiriath-jearim):

And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;

And the south part is from the farthest point of Kiriath-jearim, and the line goes out to the west to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah:

And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.

The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money.

And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim.

And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.

And he took Elijah's robe, which had been dropped from him, and giving the water a blow with it, said, Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah? and at his blow the waters were parted this way and that; and Elisha went over.

And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean.

Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not be washed in them and become clean? So turning, he went away in wrath.

Then he went down seven times into the waters of Jordan, as the man of God had said; and his flesh became like the flesh of a little child again, and he was clean.

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

Let the sea be thundering with all its waters; let the field be glad, and everything which is in it;

By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אשׁמרת אשׁמוּרה אשׁמרה 
'ashmurah 
Usage: 7

παρατηρέω 
Paratereo 
Usage: 6

ירא ירה 
Yarah 
Usage: 83

מצא מוצא 
Mowtsa' 
Usage: 27

מים 
Mayim 
Usage: 581

מסה 
Macah 
Usage: 4

מצפּה 
Mitspeh 
Usage: 2

משׁאב 
Mash'ab 
Usage: 1

משׁמר 
Mishmar 
Usage: 22

משׁמרת 
Mishmereth 
Usage: 78

משׁקה 
Mashqeh 
Usage: 19

נזל 
Nazal 
Usage: 16

נצר 
Natsar 
Usage: 63

עיר 
`iyr (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

צנּוּר 
Tsinnuwr 
Usage: 2

צפה 
Tsaphah 
Usage: 36

צפיּה 
Ts@phiyah 
Usage: 1

צפית 
Tsaphiyth 
Usage: 1

קוּץ 
Quwts 
Usage: 22

רוה 
Ravah 
Usage: 14

רוה 
Raveh 
Usage: 3

רי 
Riy 
Usage: 1

שׁבּלת שׁבּל 
Shibbol 
Usage: 19

שׁוּק 
Shuwq 
Usage: 3

שׁטף שׁטף 
Sheteph 
Usage: 6

שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

שׁקד 
Shaqad 
Usage: 12

שׁקה 
Shaqah 
Usage: 60

תּעלה 
T@`alah 
Usage: 11

G69
ἀγρυπνέω 
Agrupneo 
Usage: 2

G70
ἀγρυπνία 
Agrupnia 
Usage: 2

ἄνυδρος 
Anudros 
Usage: 2

γρηγορεύω 
Gregoreuo 
Usage: 6

κουστωδία 
Koustodia 
Usage: 3

νήφω 
Nepho 
be sober , watch
Usage: 6

ποταμός 
Potamos 
Usage: 11

ποτίζω 
Potizo 
Usage: 9

τηρέω 
Tereo 
Usage: 49

ὑδριά 
Hudria 
Usage: 2

ὑδροποτέω 
Hudropoteo 
Usage: 1

ὕδωρ ὕδατος 
Hudor 
Usage: 63

φυλακή 
Phulake 
Usage: 35

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