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Lexicon :: Strong's H5158 - naḥal

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נַחַל
Transliteration
naḥal
Pronunciation
nakh'-al
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From נָחַל (H5157) in its original sense
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TWOT Reference: 1343a,1343b

Strong’s Definitions

נַחַל nachal, nakh'-al; or (feminine) נַחְלָה nachlâh; (Psalm 124:4), or נַחֲלָה nachălâh; (Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:28), from H5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine):—brook, flood, river, stream, valley.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 141x

The KJV translates Strong's H5158 in the following manner: river (56x), brook (46x), valley (23x), stream (11x), flood (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 141x
The KJV translates Strong's H5158 in the following manner: river (56x), brook (46x), valley (23x), stream (11x), flood (5x).
  1. torrent, valley, wadi, torrent-valley

    1. torrent

    2. torrent-valley, wadi (as stream bed)

    3. shaft (of mine)

  2. palm-tree

    1. meaning dubious

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נַחַל nachal, nakh'-al; or (feminine) נַחְלָה nachlâh; (Psalm 124:4), or נַחֲלָה nachălâh; (Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:28), from H5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine):—brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
STRONGS H5158: Abbreviations
† I. נַ֫חַל noun masculine 2 Kings 3:16 torrent, torrent-valley, wady (Ecclus 40:13; 40:16; Late Hebrew id., stream (rare); Targum נַחְלָא bdb063601, = Biblical Hebrew; Assyrian naḫlu = Biblical Hebrew; LagBN 140 Anm. thinks Νεῖλος may be from Νεέλ = נַחַל pronounced *נִהִל; on נ׳ in Sabean proper name, of a location, see HalRev. Sémit. Iv (1896), 80, 1, 14); — absolute נ׳ Genesis 32:24 +, נַ֫חְלָה Psalm 124:4; construct נַחַל Genesis 26:17 +; with ה locative, Genesis 34:5 so read also Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:28 (where MT נַחֲלָ֫ה; see Thes); dual נַחֲלַיִם Ezekiel 47:9, but read הַנַּחַל Greek Version of the LXX. Targum Syriac Version Vulgate Co Berthol; plural נְחָלִים Numbers 21:4 +; נַחֲלֵי Deuteronomy 8:7 +; suffix נְחֶלֶיהָ Isaiah 34:9; —
1. torrent, of rushing water in narrow channel Judges 5:21 (3 times in verse); Judges 4:7, 13; Psalm 83:10 (all of קִישֹׁן, which see); mountain torrent Deuteronomy 9:21 (compare Exodus 32:20); so Amos 5:24 (simile of righteousness); הַשּׁוֺטֵף הַנּ׳ 2 Chronicles 32:4 (|| מַעְיָנוֺת); לְזֶפֶת נ׳ נֶהְפְּכוּ Isaiah 34:9; simile of tears Lamentations 2:18; hyperb.שָֿׁ֑מֶן נ׳ Micah 6:7 torrents of oil, compare of honey and curd Job 20:17 (|| פְּלַגּוֹת, נְהָרִים); figurativeבְלִיַּעַל נ׳ 2 Samuel 22:5 torrents of worthlessness (|| מִשְׁבְּרֵי מָ֫וֶת), = Psalm 18:5; שׁוֺטֵף נ׳ simile of glory of nations Isaiah 66:12, figurative of invaders Jeremiah 47:2 (|| מַיִס), or foes Psalm 124:4 (נַ֫חְלָה, see above); 1 Kings 17:4, 6 (for drinking), drying up in summer 1 Kings 17:7 (יָבֵשׁ; all of Elijah's stream כְּרִית, which see); for drinking also Psalm 110:7, and (figurative) עֲדָנֶיךָ נ׳ Psalm 36:9; Job 6:15 (twice in verse) (אֲפִיק נְחָלִים; in simile); of water bursting from rock Psalm 78:20 (שָׁטַף, || מַיִם), compare Psalm 74:15 (+ מַעְיָן); figurative of מְקוֺר חָכְמָה Proverbs 18:4 (נֹבֵּעַ נ׳; || מַיִם עֲמֻקִים); more generally = stream, brook, river (chiefly late) Isaiah 11:15 (divisions of river, נָהָר) in desert Isaiah 35:6 (|| מַיִם), Jeremiah 31:9 (נַחֲלֵי מַיִם), Ezekiel 47:5 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 47:9b (all strike out Co), Ezekiel 47:6; Ezekiel 47:7; Ezekiel 47:9a (readהַנַּחַל, see above), Ezekiel 47:12; containing fish, etc. Leviticus 11:9, 10 (|| מַיִם, יַמִּים), Ecclesiastes 1:7 (twice in verse); figurative רוּחַ י׳, Isaiah 30:28 (שׁוֺטֵף נ׳, Isaiah 30:33 (גָּפְרִית נ׳).
2. Torrent-valley, wady, as stream-bed 1 Samuel 17:40; Nehemiah 2:15; Isaiah 57:6; with torrent flowing through it, אֵיתָן נ׳ Deuteronomy 21:4 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 21:6, אֶרֶץ נַחֲלֵי מַיִם Deuteronomy 8:7 (|| עֲיָנֹת וּתְהֹמֹת יֹּצְאִים בַּבִּקְעָה), compare Deuteronomy 10:7, 1 Kings 18:5 (|| מַעְיְנֵי הַמַיִם), Psalm 104:10; abode of Elijah 1 Kings 17:3, 5 (compare 1 Kings 17:4; 1 Kings 17:6; 1 Kings 17:7 above); עֹרְבֵי נ׳ Proverbs 30:17 (compare 1 Kings 17:4, 6); הַבַּתּוֺת נ׳ Isaiah 7:19 as home of bees; fertile, אֶשְׁכֹּל נ׳ Numbers 13:23, 24 (E); אִבֵּי הַנּ׳ Songs 6:11; עַרְבֵינֿ׳ poplars of the wady Leviticus 23:40 (H), Job 40:22; עֲרָבִים נ׳ Isaiah 15:7; needing water Genesis 26:17 (גְּרָר נ׳), Genesis 26:19 (J), compare 2 Kings 3:16, 17; place for refuse, ruins, etc. 2 Samuel 17:13; in poetry also as wild, remote ravine Job 30:6, compare בְּצוּר הַנְּחָלִים Job 22:24; place of child-sacrifice Isaiah 57:5; burial-place Job 21:33 (רִגְבֵי נ׳), — Numbers 24:6 see II. נַ֫חַל.
Particular wadys designate localities: אַרְנוֺן Numbers 21:14 (E), Deuteronomy 2:24, 36 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 3:8, 12, 16 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 4:48; Joshua 12:1, 2(twice in verse); Joshua 13:9 (twice in verse) (all D), Joshua 13:16; Joshua 13:16 (P), 2 Kings 10:33; אֶשְׁכֹּל Numbers 32:9 (J), Deuteronomy 1:24 בְּשׂוֺר 1 Samuel 30:9, 10, 21; גָּד 2 Samuel 24:5; זֶרֶד Numbers 21:12 (E), Deuteronomy 2:13 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 2:14; יַכֹּק Genesis 32:24 (J), Deuteronomy 2:37; Deuteronomy 3:16; Joshua 12:2 (all D); קִדְרוֺן 2 Samuel 15:23; 1 Kings 2:37; 1 Kings 15:13; 1 Kings 18:40; 1Ki 23:6 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 23:12; 2 Chronicles 15:16; 29:16; 30:14; Jeremiah 31:40; קָנָה Joshua 16:8; Joshua 17:9 (3 times in verse) (all P); שׂוֺרֵק Judges 16:4; הַשִּׁטִּים נ׳ Joel 4:18; נ׳ מִצְרַיִם is southwest limit of Palestine (Assyrian naḫal [mat] Muṣri, Dl Par. 310 SchrCOT Numbers 34:5) Numbers 34:5 (P), Joshua 15:4 (D), Joshua 15:47 (P), 1 Kings 8:65; 2 Kings 24:7, 2; Chron 2 Kings 7:8; Isaiah 27:12, + (omit מצרים) Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:28 (see above); so read also possibly Amos 6:14 (see עֲרָבָה : usually identified with Wâdy el-Arîsh; on Wkl's different view, see references below מִצְרַיִם near the end); on identification of נ׳ Joshua 15:7; Joshua 19:11 (both P), 2 Samuel 23:30 = 1 Chronicles 11:32; 2 Chronicles 20:16; 33:14, see Commentaries; אָשֶׁד הַנְּחָלִים Numbers 21:15, see אֶשֶׁד.
3. Miner's shaft, נ׳ פָּרַץ Job 28:4.

† II. [נַ֫חַל] noun [masculine] perhaps palm-tree (Arabic bdb063602, noun of individual meaning bdb063603; see PerlesJQ, July, 1899, 688); — only plural absolute, כִּנְחָלִים נִטָּ֑יוּ Numbers 24:6 like palm-trees, which are stretched out, spread out (as to foliage). So Perlesl.c., who compares כערבי נחל Ecclus 50:12e, Greek Version of the LXX ὡς στελέχη φοινικων.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

26:17; 26:17; 26:19; 32:24; 32:24; 34:5

Exodus

32:20

Leviticus

11:9; 11:10; 23:40

Numbers

13:23; 13:24; 21:4; 21:12; 21:14; 21:15; 24:6; 24:6; 32:9; 34:5; 34:5

Deuteronomy

1:24; 2:13; 2:14; 2:24; 2:36; 2:37; 3:8; 3:12; 3:16; 3:16; 4:48; 8:7; 8:7; 9:21; 10:7; 21:4; 21:6

Joshua

12:1; 12:2; 12:2; 13:9; 13:16; 13:16; 15:4; 15:7; 15:47; 16:8; 17:9; 19:11

Judges

4:7; 4:13; 5:21; 16:4

1 Samuel

17:40; 30:9; 30:10; 30:21

2 Samuel

15:23; 17:13; 22:5; 23:12; 23:30; 24:5

1 Kings

2:37; 8:65; 15:13; 17:3; 17:4; 17:4; 17:4; 17:5; 17:6; 17:6; 17:6; 17:7; 17:7; 18:5; 18:40

2 Kings

3:16; 3:16; 3:17; 7:8; 10:33; 24:2; 24:7

1 Chronicles

11:32

2 Chronicles

15:16; 20:16; 29:16; 30:14; 32:4; 33:14

Nehemiah

2:15

Job

6:15; 20:17; 21:33; 22:24; 28:4; 30:6; 40:22

Psalms

18:5; 36:9; 74:15; 78:20; 83:10; 104:10; 110:7; 124:4; 124:4

Proverbs

18:4; 30:17

Ecclesiastes

1:7

Song of Songs

6:11

Isaiah

7:19; 11:15; 15:7; 27:12; 30:28; 30:33; 34:9; 34:9; 35:6; 57:5; 57:6; 66:12

Jeremiah

31:9; 31:40; 47:2

Lamentations

2:18

Ezekiel

47:5; 47:6; 47:7; 47:9; 47:9; 47:9; 47:12; 47:19; 47:19; 48:28; 48:28

Amos

5:24; 6:14

Micah

6:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5158 matches the Hebrew נַחַל (naḥal),
which occurs 141 times in 123 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:5 - When the waves of death compassed me, the floods H5158 of ungodly men made me afraid;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:30 - Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks H5158 of Gaash,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:5 - And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river H5158 of Gad, and toward Jazer:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:37 - For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook H5158 Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 - And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river H5158 of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook H5158 Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:3 - Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook H5158 Cherith, that is before Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:4 - And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; H5158 and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:5 - So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook H5158 Cherith, that is before Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:6 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. H5158
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:7 - And it came to pass after a while, that the brook H5158 dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: H5158 peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook H5158 Kishon, and slew them there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:16 - And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley H5158 full of ditches.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:17 - For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley H5158 shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river H5158 Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook H5158 Kidron, and burned it at the brook H5158 Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook H5158 Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river H5158 of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:32 - Hurai of the brooks H5158 of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:8 - Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river H5158 of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook H5158 Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:16 - To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, H5158 before the wilderness of Jeruel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16 - And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook H5158 Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:14 - And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook H5158 Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:4 - So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook H5158 that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14 - Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, H5158 even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15 - Then went I up in the night by the brook, H5158 and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:15 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, H5158 and as the stream of brooks H5158 they pass away;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:17 - He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks H5158 of honey and butter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:33 - The clods of the valley H5158 shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 - Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. H5158
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4 - The flood H5158 breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:6 - To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, H5158 in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:22 - The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook H5158 compass him about.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:4 - The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods H5158 of ungodly men made me afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:8 - They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river H5158 of thy pleasures.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:15 - Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: H5158 thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 - Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams H5158 overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:9 - Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook H5158 of Kison:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:10 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, H5158 which run among the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:7 - He shall drink of the brook H5158 in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:4 - Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream H5158 had gone over our soul:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:4 - The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. H5158
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:17 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley H5158 shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:7 - All the rivers H5158 run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers H5158 come, thither they return again.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:11 - I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, H5158 and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19 - And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, H5158 and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, H5158 and make men go over dryshod.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:7 - Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook H5158 of the willows.

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