📖 Biblical Definition
The Flood is the global judgment by water that destroyed all flesh in the days of Noah — every living thing on the face of the ground — except Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives, and the animals preserved in the ark (Genesis 6-9). The waters of the deep burst, the windows of heaven opened, the rain fell forty days, and the earth was covered. After 150 days the waters abated, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, and Noah offered burnt offerings on dry ground. God gave the rainbow as covenant sign. The Flood is both historical event and pattern: universal judgment with a particular ark of salvation. Christ Himself is the ark; outside Him there is no shelter from the coming fire (2 Peter 3).
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
Flood — the deluge of Noah's day; universal judgment of the antediluvian world.
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Forty days of rain and the breaking of the great deep covered the highest mountains, destroying all who were not in the ark. The waters prevailed 150 days; afterward God established a covenant with creation, sealed by the bow in the cloud.
📖 Key Scripture
Genesis 6:5 — "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Genesis 7:23 — "Every living substance was destroyed… and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark."
Genesis 9:13 — "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."
1 Peter 3:20 — "Eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
The Flood is downgraded to local event or pure myth, severing it from final judgment.
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Old-earth and theistic-evolution frameworks reduce the Flood to a local Mesopotamian inundation or a Sumerian myth borrowed by Israel. The geological evidence of catastrophe is reinterpreted to fit slow uniformitarian processes.
Scripture and Christ Himself treat the Flood as global, historical, and prophetic of the final judgment (Matt 24:37–39). The ark stands forever as the picture: judgment is real, salvation is in a vessel God Himself provides, and there is one door.
🔗 Greek & Hebrew Roots
Mabbul (flood) and tebah (ark) are the keywords.
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H3999 — mabbul — flood, deluge
H8392 — tebah — ark, vessel
H7198 — qesheth — bow — rainbow of covenant
Usage
"The ark had one door — and so does salvation."
"As it was in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be."
"Eight souls in an ark while a world drowned — the remnant pattern is set."