Genesis 7:22

22 Everything on earth that breathed died.

Genesis 7:22 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:22

All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life
Whether of fowls, beast, cattle, or creeping things:

of all that was in the dry land, died;
by which description fishes were excepted, since they breathe not, having no lungs, and are not on the dry land, where they cannot live, but in the waters. Some pretend it to be the opinion of some Jewish writers, that the fishes did die, the waters being made hot, and scalded them; but this fable I have not met with.

Genesis 7:22 In-Context

20 it went on rising until it was about twenty-five feet above the tops of the mountains.

21 Every living being on the earth died - every bird, every animal, and every person.

22 Everything on earth that breathed died.

23 The Lord destroyed all living beings on the earth - human beings, animals, and birds. The only ones left were Noah and those who were with him in the boat.

24 The water did not start going down for a hundred and fifty days.