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Genesis 7:4

כִּי לְ יָמִים עֹוד שִׁבְעָה אָנֹכִי מַמְטִיר עַל הָ אָרֶץ אַרְבָּעִים יֹום וְ אַרְבָּעִים לָיְלָה וּ מָחִיתִי אֶת כָּל הַ יְקוּם אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתִי מֵ עַל פְּנֵי הָ אֲדָמָה
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).