Words

καταρράκτης G91289

Home gloss

cataract

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

windows / floodgates

Note

A down-rushing fall; the cognate keeps its living English sense of a great waterfall and is noted (5, 57)

Rulings

5, 57

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 7 (Septuagint)

• 7:11 In the six hundredth year in the life of Noah, of the second month, on the seventh and twentieth of the month, on this day all the springs of the Abyss burst, and the cataracts of the sky were opened;

Genesis 8 (Septuagint)

• 8:2 And the springs of the Abyss and the cataracts of the sky were uncovered, and the rain from the sky was constrained,