Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: Whereby, х Di' (G1223) hon (G3739)] - (plural). By means of which heavens and earth (in respect to the WATERS which flowed together from both) the then world perished (i:e., in respect to its occupants, men and animals, and its existing order: not was annihilated): for in the flood "the fountains of the great deep were broken up" from the earth:
(1) below, and "the windows of heaven"
(2) above "were opened." The earth was deluged by that water out of which it had originally risen.