The word is also translated *floodgates*.
However, your posts have been an excellent example of my point in my last post.
Which are also openings in a physical barrier. So I take it, then, you do believe there was once a physical barrier around the earth with water on the other side and openings the water could pour through? If you don't believe that--because that's what the words say--how are you not rejecting Scripture? If you want to get around that by saying it's true in a way we can't understand, how is it nobody's allowed to do that with the part about making man from the dust of the earth? Do you really understand how that worked?