Genesis 8:2
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The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

fountains.

Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:

Proverbs 8:28 When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth;

Jonah 2:3 And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.

the rain.

Job 37:11-13 Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light: . . .

Job 38:37 Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?

Matthew 8:9,26,27 For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another Come, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. . . .

Context
The Ark Rests on Ararat
1And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated: 2The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.3And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:4
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:

Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Job 38:16
Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?

Lexicon
The springs
מַעְיְנֹ֣ת (ma‘·yə·nōṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4599: A fountain, a source

of the deep
תְּה֔וֹם (tə·hō·wm)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8415: An abyss, the deep

and the floodgates
וַֽאֲרֻבֹּ֖ת (wa·’ă·rub·bōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 699: A lattice, a window, dovecot, chimney, sluice

of the heavens
הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם (haš·šā·mā·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8064: Heaven, sky

were closed,
וַיִּסָּֽכְרוּ֙ (way·yis·sā·ḵə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5534: To shut up, to surrender

and the rain
הַגֶּ֖שֶׁם (hag·ge·šem)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1653: Rain, shower

from
מִן־ (min-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of

the sky
הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ (haš·šā·mā·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8064: Heaven, sky

was restrained.
וַיִּכָּלֵ֥א (way·yik·kā·lê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3607: To shut up, restrain, withhold


Additional Translations
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.

the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.
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