Genesis 7:20
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The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

and the mountains.

Psalm 104:6 The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

Jeremiah 3:23 In very deed the hills were liars, and the multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

Context
The Duration of the Flood
19And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.21And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:19
And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

Lexicon
The waters
הַמָּ֑יִם (ham·mā·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

rose
גָּבְר֖וּ (gā·ḇə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1396: To be strong, to prevail, act insolently

and covered
וַיְכֻסּ֖וּ (way·ḵus·sū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Pual - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

the mountaintops
הֶהָרִֽים׃ (he·hā·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

to a depth
מִלְמַ֔עְלָה (mil·ma‘·lāh)
Preposition-m, Preposition-l | Adverb | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4605: The upper part, with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top

of fifteen
חֲמֵ֨שׁ (ḥă·mêš)
Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2568: Five

cubits.
אַמָּה֙ (’am·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base


Additional Translations
The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains.

Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail: and the mountains were covered.

The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;
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