The Meaning of Genesis 7:11 Explained

Genesis 7:11

KJV: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

YLT: In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

Darby: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

ASV: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

In  the six  hundredth  year  of Noah's  life,  in the second  month,  the seventeenth  day  of the month,  the same  day  were all the fountains  of the great  deep  broken up,  and the windows  of heaven  were opened. 

What does Genesis 7:11 Mean?

Study Notes

second month
i.e. May.

Context Summary

Genesis 7:1-24 - The Great Flood
What anguish! They climbed the highest story of their towers, then to the hills, but the greedy waters followed them, till the last crag was covered, and all living things in the first homes of human life had perished. Equally sudden and unexpected shall be the days of the Son of Man. See Luke 17:26; 2 Peter 3:7. But what drowns other men only lifts the child of God nearer his home. The waters bear up the ark. When the loftiest refuges of lies and pride are submerged, and the whole landscape is covered with a monotonous waste of trouble, God says to the soul, "Come into the ark." It is as though He is inside and wants us to enter into close fellowship with Himself. See Psalms 27:5. When God shuts the door behind us, no power can force, no skeleton key can unlock, and no wedge can pry the door. For the extent of the Deluge it is appropriate to consider Luke 2:1-3. [source]

Chapter Summary: Genesis 7

1  Noah, his family and the living creatures enter the ark
6  The flood begins
17  The increase of the flood for forty days
21  All flesh is destroyed by it
24  Its duration of 150 days

What do the individual words in Genesis 7:11 mean?

In the year six hundredth year of the life of Noah in the month second on the seven and tenth day of the month on day this burst forth all the fountains of the deep great and the windows of the heavens were opened
בִּשְׁנַ֨ת שֵׁשׁ־ מֵא֤וֹת שָׁנָה֙ לְחַיֵּי־ נֹ֔חַ בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י בְּשִׁבְעָֽה־ עָשָׂ֥ר י֖וֹם --לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֗ה נִבְקְעוּ֙ כָּֽל־ מַעְיְנֹת֙ תְּה֣וֹם רַבָּ֔ה וַאֲרֻבֹּ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם נִפְתָּֽחוּ

בִּשְׁנַ֨ת  In  the  year 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
שֵׁשׁ־  six 
Parse: Number, feminine singular construct
Root: שֵׁשׁ  
Sense: six.
מֵא֤וֹת  hundredth 
Parse: Number, feminine plural
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
שָׁנָה֙  year 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
לְחַיֵּי־  of  the  life 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: חַי 
Sense: living, alive.
נֹ֔חַ  of  Noah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: נׄחַ  
Sense: son of Lamech, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; builder of the ark which saved his family from the destruction of the world which God sent on the world by the flood; became the new seminal head of the human race because his family were the only survivors of the flood.
בַּחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙  in  the  month 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֹדֶשׁ  
Sense: the new moon, month, monthly.
הַשֵּׁנִ֔י  second 
Parse: Article, Number, ordinal masculine singular
Root: שֵׁנִי  
Sense: second.
בְּשִׁבְעָֽה־  on  the  seven 
Parse: Preposition-b, Number, masculine singular
Root: שֶׁבַע  
Sense: seven (cardinal number).
עָשָׂ֥ר  and  tenth 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: עָשָׂר 
Sense: ten, -teen (in combination with other numbers).
י֖וֹם  day 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
--לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ  of  the  month 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֹדֶשׁ  
Sense: the new moon, month, monthly.
בַּיּ֣וֹם  on  day 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
הַזֶּ֗ה  this 
Parse: Article, Pronoun, masculine singular
Root: זֶה  
Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, another, such.
נִבְקְעוּ֙  burst  forth 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: בָּקַע  
Sense: to split, cleave, break open, divide, break through, rip up, break up, tear.
מַעְיְנֹת֙  the  fountains 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: מַעְיָן  
Sense: spring.
תְּה֣וֹם  of  the  deep 
Parse: Noun, common singular
Root: תְּהֹום  
Sense: deep, depths, deep places, abyss, the deep, sea.
רַבָּ֔ה  great 
Parse: Adjective, feminine singular
Root: רַב 
Sense: much, many, great.
וַאֲרֻבֹּ֥ת  and  the  windows 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: אֲרֻבָּה  
Sense: lattice, window, sluice.
הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם  of  the  heavens 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: שָׁמַיִם  
Sense: heaven, heavens, sky.
נִפְתָּֽחוּ  were  opened 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: פָּתַח 
Sense: to open.