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Genesis 7:4

For to days again seven, myself is he-who-causes-rain upon the Earth forty hot-one and forty night-hers,268 and I have wiped-out the את-whole of the Standing-one269 who I have made from upon the faces of the Red-one.`

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Strong’s #3351, yaqum. standing [thing]. With definite article. The Pulpit Commentary says, “yekum; literally, standing thing”. It is also found in Deut. 11:6, “the whole of the Standing which is in/at their feet.” At their feet parallels the faces of the Ground. Think grain and harvest and setting fire to wheat. The word is derived from qum, to stand (#6965) from which we also get qamah, standing grain (#7054). In Samson’s story torches are fastened to foxes’ tails to burn the grain of the Philistines (Judges 15:5).