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

the ark.

Genesis 7:17-19 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth. . . .

seventh month.

Ararat.

2 Kings 19:37 And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch, his god, Adramelech and Sarasar, his sons, slew him with the sword, and they fled into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon, his son, reigned in his stead.

Isaiah 37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Jeremiah 51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her, bring the horse as the stinging locust.

Context
The Ark Rests on Ararat
3And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days. 4And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.5And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:20
The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

Genesis 8:5
And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

2 Kings 19:37
And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch, his god, Adramelech and Sarasar, his sons, slew him with the sword, and they fled into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon, his son, reigned in his stead.

Isaiah 37:38
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Jeremiah 51:27
Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her, bring the horse as the stinging locust.

Lexicon
On the seventeenth
בְּשִׁבְעָה־ (bə·šiḇ·‘āh-)
Preposition-b | Number - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

day
י֖וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

of the seventh
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י (haš·šə·ḇî·‘î)
Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7637: Seventh (an ordinal number)

month,
בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ (ba·ḥō·ḏeš)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2320: The new moon, a month

the ark
הַתֵּבָה֙ (hat·tê·ḇāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8392: A box, chest

came to rest
וַתָּ֤נַח (wat·tā·naḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5117: To rest, settle down

on
עַ֖ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the mountains
הָרֵ֥י (hā·rê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

of Ararat.
אֲרָרָֽט׃ (’ă·rā·rāṭ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 780: Ararat -- a district in eastern Armenia


Additional Translations
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;
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