My definition, which aligns with 99% of Biblical scholarship today, is perfectly fine.
Thanks.
I believe 100% your figure is wrong.
And you're welcome to cope all day on the topic. But the Bible says what it says.
No bother, it gives me something new to study. Some people
do not know how to rightly divide Gods Word of Truth.
There is nothing scientific about the sky being a solid dome
Many scientific principles are mentioned in the bible pertaining to Gods creation,
but closed minds do not want to see or hear what it says.
Tehom Genesis 1:2 Darkness over the face of the deep So much debate over flat Earth, Sabbath, six day creation, young and old Earth. I think we pass right over an awesome concept here. The Deep. Waters? Yes. But more, ourselves, our existence, our lives and the mystery of it all. The...
The wonders of water
Water has some fascinating features that suggest it has been designed ‘just right’ for life.
There is nothing scientific about...windows of the sky opening and closing to let water through during the flood.
Basically, that is correct, there is no physical windows in the air.
אֲרֻבָּה serves as a vivid theological hinge between heaven and earth.
Whether unleashing deluge, provision, judgment, or blessing, the “window”
underscores that every flow—water, grain, light, or grace—originates in
God’s sovereign storehouse and moves at His command.
Lexical Summary
arubbah: Window, lattice, sluice
Genesis 7:11, 8:2
NAS: the floodgates of the sky
INT: the floodgates of the sky
Never heard someone say: the floodgates of the sky opened up when it poured heavy rain.
H699 could mean a sluice (with openings for water)
Historical and Cultural Background
"Archaeology reveals small lattice or shuttered windows high on
mud-brick houses, designed to admit air while limiting heat, rain,
and thieves. City gates and fortress towers also had narrow slits
for watching or shooting arrows.
These practical features offered ready metaphors for overflowing
water, cascading grain, or descending birds. In agrarian Israel,
a window in a granary roof allowed grain to be poured in; such
imagery informs Malachi’s promise that heaven itself will act like
an overflowing barn."
The Bible says GOD controls the weather.
Sometimes He uses weather -for blessings
Deuteronomy 11:14
14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season,
the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in
thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
-for punishment
7And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there
wereyet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain
upon onecity, and caused it not to rain upon another city:
one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it
rained not withered.
-for the day of battle and war
22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou
seen the treasures of the hail, Which I have reserved against the
time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not
at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirl-
wind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
God shows Himself as the One ultimately in control of the
weather. And He uses it to communicate with mankind.
"Also with moisture He saturates the thick clouds; He scatters
His bright clouds. And they swirl about, being turned by His guidance,
That they may do whatever He commands them On the face
of the whole earth. He causes it to come, Whether for correction,
Or for His land, Or for mercy” (verses 10-13; New King James Version)
“By the breath of God ice is given,” Job 37 reads,“And the broad waters are frozen.
The Bible records curses in Leviticus 26
“And I will break the pride of your power; and
I will make your heaven
as iron, and your earth as brass: And your strength shall be spent in vain:
for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of
the land yield their fruits”
A time when the sky will hold as much moisture as
a sheet of iron, and the soil, as a plate of brass.
That means drought and famine (Joel 1:10-16; Amos 4:7).
In 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, God says: “If I shut up heaven that there be no rain,
or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among
my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear
from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Malachi 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in
mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts,
if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing,
that there shall not be room enough to receive it .
Genesis 49:25
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; And by the Almighty,
who shall bless thee With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the
deep that lieth under, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
I believe every word in the bible, Gods Oracles. The bible
says God controls the weather, do you believe that ?
Now if you do not believe above, God also recorded in the bible real
scientific principles mentioned long before mankind discovered them.
It wasn’t until 1580 that a full scientific explanation of the water cycle
was delivered by Bernard Palissy—about 2,500 years after King Solomon
had described it in detail. Cope with it, the Bible says what it says.
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Bible Miracles: The Water Cycle. Thousands of years ago, the Bible mentioned concepts of hydrology included complete descriptions of the hydrologic cycle.
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a divine explanation of this most critical life support system was provided to us from
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have now confirmed what God revealed".