Genesis 8:2

2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

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Genesis 8:2 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

English Standard Version (ESV)

2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

New Living Translation (NLT)

2 The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.

The Message Bible (MSG)

2 The underground springs were shut off, the windows of Heaven closed and the rain quit.

American Standard Version (ASV)

2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)

2 The deep springs and the sky had been shut, and the rain had stopped pouring.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

2 The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.

New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

2 The springs at the bottom of the oceans had been closed. The windows of the skies had been closed. And the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

Genesis 8:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 8:2

The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven,
were stopped
The passages which let out the subterraneous waters in great quantity upon the earth, and the clouds of heaven, which poured down water upon it like spouts, were stopped from sending forth any more, as they had from the first of the flood unto one hundred and fifty days from thence: Jarchi observes, that it is not said that "all" the fountains of the deep, as when they were broken up, ( Genesis 7:11 ) because some of them were left open for the use and benefit of the world; besides, some must be left for the return of the waters: and the rain from heaven was restrained:
which seems to confirm what has been before observed, that after the rain of forty days and nights it ceased not to rain, more or less, though not so vehemently, until the end of an hundred and fifty days, and then it entirely ceased.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 8:2 In-Context

1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

Cross References 2

1. S Genesis 7:11
2. S Genesis 7:4