Words the Bible translates as river
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- potamosποταμόςa river: a natural channel of flowing water, whether a steady stream or a rushing flood
- naḥalנַחַלa seasonal desert watercourse: the ravine that channels rushing water in the rainy season and lies dry the rest of the year, and the rushing water itself
- naharנָהָרa river: a steady, year-round stream of flowing water, often a large named one
- ye'orיְאֹרthe Nile, the great river of Egypt; by extension its branching channels, and now and then any large river or watercourse.
- aphiqאָפִיקa watercourse: the bed or channel a stream runs in, from a seasonal desert ravine to the deep channels of the sea
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- strong ones: mighty or powerful people
- neharנְהַרa river; in Ezra always the Euphrates, named in the fixed title of the Persian province that lay west of it
- pelegפֶּלֶגa channel of flowing liquid: a branch of water split off from a larger river to carry and distribute it.
- uvalאוּבַלrivernot studied yet
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