The waters had SWELLED on the earth for 150 days

[tonychanyt]

ESV, Ge 7:

24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

prevailed
וַיִּגְבְּר֥וּ (way·yiḡ·bə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1396: To be strong, to prevail, act insolently

New American Bible:

And when the waters had swelled on the earth for one hundred and fifty days,

On Biblehub, 2 translations used "swelled"; 16 used "prevailed".

 

[Rxlx]

ESV, Ge 7:


prevailed
וַיִּגְבְּר֥וּ (way·yiḡ·bə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1396: To be strong, to prevail, act insolently

New American Bible:


On Biblehub, 2 translations used "swelled"; 16 used "prevailed".

Correct. The 60,000 geysers blew for 40 days and nights and their water cooled the canopy that then fell as freezing rain for another 110 days.
Get a book called 'A Brief History of Time #2' and read the chapter that clarifies everything about the flood.

 

[tonychanyt]

Get a book called 'A Brief History of Time #2' and read the chapter that clarifies everything about the flood.

Thanks for the reference. Can you quote some relevant text from it?

 

[David Lamb]

Correct. The 60,000 geysers blew for 40 days and nights and their water cooled the canopy that then fell as freezing rain for another 110 days.
Get a book called 'A Brief History of Time #2' and read the chapter that clarifies everything about the flood.

But Stephen Hawking, who wrote "A Brief History of Time", was an atheist. He wrote: "“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.” So hardly a good source for clarifying everything about the Flood.