41 occurrences in 12 translations

'Floods' in the Bible

The floods covered them;they sank to the depths like a stone.

Verse ConceptsdepthMan Going DownPeople As RocksDeep Seas

And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Verse ConceptsChaosHeart, HumanNosesRestraintNostrils

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples OfFear, Of DeathFear Of DeathFloodsoverwhelmed

I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

Verse ConceptsdrynessPeople Drying Things UpFeet In ActionFailing Rivers

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterThings Wearing OutWithout Hope

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

Verse ConceptsButterMilk And Honey

Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.

Verse ConceptsOvertaken By Darkness

He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

Verse ConceptsVeilsDisclosures

"Who cuts canals for storm floods, and paths for the lightning and thunder,

Verse ConceptsNatureRainWater ChannelGod Controlling The Rain

Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee?

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Verse ConceptsContinentsRiversThe OceanThe SeaFloods

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeThe Accepted TimeWatchfulness, DivineAnswered PromisesFinding GodSwampedStress And Hard TimesOvercoming Hard TimesFloodsPrayer During Hard TimesAcknowledged

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Verse ConceptsChaosMarshes

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

Verse ConceptsBlood, as symbol of guiltTurned To Blood

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Verse ConceptsWavesThe OceanThe SeaFloods

Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together

Verse ConceptsClappingApplauseRiversFloodsjoyful

“Let burning coals fall upon them;Let them be thrown into the fire,Into deep [water] pits from which they cannot rise.

Verse ConceptsBurning People

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterQuenchingLove Of Jesus, To The SaintsLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfRomance

That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, -- Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.

Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts -- mount Zion!'

Verse ConceptsGiftsGiving To GodDivision Of WatersTall PeopleWaters DividingFearing Other PeopleAmerica

And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and floods will overflow your hiding place.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfPlumb LineAccuracy

I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

Verse ConceptsdrynessWaterPeople Drying Things Upbridges

Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods.

Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodLife, Of FaithNewnessBlessing In The WildernessMaking RoadsRiversFuture Plansa new beginningNew BeginningsA New DayPathsNew

Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people -- My chosen.

Verse ConceptsHonorWaterBlessing In The WildernessGod Providing WaterWild Beasts SubduedOstriches

Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.

Verse ConceptsGrindingLegsPassing ThroughVeilsPeople Stripping OffGrinding Food

For this is what the Lord says: "Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river, the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. You will nurse from her breast and be carried at her side; you will play on her knees.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceKneelingPeace, Promised ToKneesJerusalem In Millennial KingdomRiversHealing And ComfortPeace And ComfortPeace And StrengthFloodsBlessings And ProsperityWealth And Prosperitybreasts

Speak, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt! The great dragon that is crouching in the midst of his floods, Who hath said, My flood is my own, And I -- I have made it for myself.

Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesPeople Possessing Other Things

And I have put hooks in thy jaws, And I have caused the fish of thy floods to cleave to thy scales, And I have caused thee to come up from the midst of thy floods, And every fish of thy floods to thy scales doth cleave.

Verse ConceptsThings Stuck TogetherGod Lifting People

And I have left thee in the wilderness, Thou and every fish of thy floods, On the face of the field thou dost fall, Thou art not gathered nor assembled, To the beast of the earth and to the fowl of the heavens I have given thee for food.

Verse ConceptsGathering CreaturesAnimals Eating PeopleNo Burialsreuniting

Therefore, lo, I am against thee, and against thy floods, And have given the land of Egypt for wastes, A waste, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene, And unto the border of Cush.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesEthiopiaAfricaLand Becoming EmptyPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

And I have made floods a dry place, And I have sold the land into the hand of evil doers, And I have made desolate the land, And its fulness, by the hand of strangers, I, Jehovah, have spoken.

Verse ConceptsdrynessLand Becoming EmptyWaters Drying UpGod Drying Things UpSuffering From ForeignersFamine

Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

Verse ConceptsMourning DeathHarming TreesThe Fact Of Death

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

Verse ConceptsChaosHeart, HumanMonotonySevere AfflictionsThrowing PeopleSinkingIn The Heart Of The SeaSwampedDeep Seaswaterfalls

He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing are Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon is languishing.

Verse ConceptsdrynessGod Drying Things UpFailing RiversThe Sea DividedFamine

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth's surface.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of StrengthDivision Of WatersThings StrippedWaters DividingPsalm Interjectionsepiphany

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

Verse ConceptsRainFoundations Of BuildingsRosesFloods

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Verse ConceptsRainThe Insecurity Of The WickedSpiritual FailureDestruction Of HousesThings FallingRosesFloods

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Inundate (2 instances)
Inundation (6 instances)
Outpouring (5 instances)
Overflow (58 instances)
Swamp (2 instances)
Torrent (58 instances)

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