And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
MESSAGE
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth.
NKJV
Noah [was] six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.
PHILIPS
RWEBSTR
And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
GWV
Noah was 600 years old when the flood came to the earth.
NET
Noah* was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed* the earth.
NET
7:6 Noah367
tnHeb “Now Noah was.” The disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + predicate nominative after implied “to be” verb) provides background information. The age of Noah receives prominence.
was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed368
tnHeb “and the flood was water upon.” The disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) is circumstantial/temporal in relation to the preceding clause. The verb הָיָה (hayah) here carries the nuance “to come” (BDB 225 s.v. הָיָה). In this context the phrase “come upon” means “to engulf.”
Genesis 7:6
