1) flood, deluge.
    1a) Noah's flood that submerged the entire planet earth under water
        for about a year
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   Some think Noah's flood was only local. However the description of it
 found in Gen. 6 through 8 makes this patently absurd. If it was local,
 Noah had 120 years to migrate out of the area to safe ground! Why waste
 all that effort building a ship? He only had to move less than 1500 feet
 a day to reach the farthest point on the globe!
   With the possible exception of \\#Ps 29:10\\, this word always refers to
 Noah's flood. The real reason for insisting on a local flood is the
 acceptance of evolution with its long geological ages. Most holding that
 view are not willing to allow a global world wide flood to have
 happened less than 5000 years ago. To admit such eliminates the need
 for the geological ages for most of the geological column would have been
 rapidly laid down by Noah's flood.