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Lexicon :: Strong's H2975 - yᵊ'ōr

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יְאֹר
Transliteration
yᵊ'ōr
Pronunciation
yeh-ore'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Egyptian origin
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TWOT Reference: 832

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: יאר (Strongs and Gesenius) יאור (Gesenius)

Strong’s Definitions

יְאֹר yᵉʼôr, yeh-ore'; of Egyptian origin; a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria:—brook, flood, river, stream.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x

The KJV translates Strong's H2975 in the following manner: river (53x), brooks (5x), flood (5x), streams (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x
The KJV translates Strong's H2975 in the following manner: river (53x), brooks (5x), flood (5x), streams (1x).

  1. river, stream, canal, Nile, Nile-canal

    1. stream, river (Nile)

    2. Nile-arms, Nile-canals

    3. watercourses

    4. shafts (mining)

    5. river (in general)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יְאֹר yᵉʼôr, yeh-ore'; of Egyptian origin; a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria:—brook, flood, river, stream.
STRONGS H2975: Abbreviations
† יְאֹר, יְאוֺר noun masculineExodus 7:21 stream of the Nile, stream, canal (Egyptian loan-word = Egyptian ’iotr, ’io’r, watercourse, Coptic eioor, ior; also ’iotr‘o, ’io’r‘o, Coptic eiero, iaro, Nile, SteindBAs i. 612; in Assyrian ia’uru, stream, ’Iaru’û, river Nile, Idib., Hptib. 171 Jägerib 466) — absolute הַיְאֹר Genesis 41:1 + 37 times; הַיְאוֺר Isaiah 19:8; הַיְאֹ֫רָה Exodus 1:22; יְאוֺר Isaiah 19:7 (3 times in verse) + 2 times; כָּאֹר (err. for כַּיְאֹר) Amos 8:8; construct כִּיאֹר Amos 9:5; כִּיאוֺר Amos 8:8; suffix יְאֹרִי Ezekiel 29:3b (Co יאר, compare Ezekiel 29:9 and Syriac Version Targum); plural יְאֹרִים Exodus 8:1 + 4 times; construct יְאֹרֵי Isaiah 7:18 + 2 times; יְאוֺרֵי 2 Kings 19:24; suffix יְאֹרֶיךָ Ezekiel 29:4 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 29:5 + Ezekiel 29:4 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co) + Ezekiel 29:10 (Co יְאֹרְךָ); יְאֹרָיו Ezekiel 29:3; יְאֹדֵיהֶם Exodus 7:19; Psalm 78:44; —
1. stream of the Nile, river Nile, usually with article Genesis 41:1, 2, 3 (twice in verse); Genesis 41:18; Exodus 1:22; Exodus 2:3, 5 (twice in verse); Exodus 4:9 (twice in verse); Exodus 7:15, 17, 18 (3 times in verse); Exodus 7:20 (twice in verse); Exodus 7:21 (3 times in verse); Exodus 7:24 (twice in verse); Exodus 7:28; Exodus 8:5; Exodus 8:7; Exodus 17:5 (all J E), Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5; Isaiah 19:7 (3 times in verse); Isaiah 19:8; Isaiah 23:3 (|| שִׁחֹר), Isaiah 23:10; Jeremiah 46:7, 8 (simile of Egyptian invasion), Ezekiel 29:3b (read יאר, see above), Ezekiel 29:9; Zechariah 10:11; more fully יְאֹר מִצְרַיִם Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5.
2. plural:
a. Nile-arms, Nile-canals, יְאֹרֵי מִצְרַים Isaiah 7:18; יְאֹרֵי מָצוֺר Isaiah 19:6 (|| נְהָרוֺת), Isaiah 37:25 = 2 Kings 19:24; see also Nahum 3:8; Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:1 (both P; || נְהָרֹת, אֲגַמִּים, etc.), Psalm 78:44 (|| נֹזְלִים), Ezekiel 29:3, 4 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 29:5, 10 + Ezekiel 29:4 MT (but strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co), Ezekiel 30:12.
b. watercourses in general, יְאֹרִים רַחֲבֵי יָדָ֑יִם Isaiah 33:21 (|| נְהָרִים; compare Late Hebrew יְאוֺר, late Aramaic יְאוֺרָא).
3. shafts, made in mining Job 28:10 (בַּצּוּרוֺת).
4. יְאֹר, singular, of Tigris, Daniel 12:5 (twice in verse); Daniel 12:6, 7 (compare Daniel 10:4).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

41:1; 41:1; 41:2; 41:3; 41:18

Exodus

1:22; 1:22; 2:3; 2:5; 4:9; 7:15; 7:17; 7:18; 7:19; 7:19; 7:20; 7:21; 7:21; 7:24; 8:1; 8:1; 8:5; 8:7; 17:5

2 Kings

19:24; 19:24

Job

28:10

Psalms

78:44; 78:44

Isaiah

7:18; 7:18; 19:6; 19:7; 19:7; 19:8; 19:8; 23:3; 23:10; 33:21; 37:25

Jeremiah

46:7; 46:8

Ezekiel

29:3; 29:3; 29:3; 29:3; 29:4; 29:4; 29:4; 29:4; 29:5; 29:5; 29:9; 29:9; 29:10; 29:10; 30:12

Daniel

10:4; 12:5; 12:6; 12:7

Amos

8:8; 8:8; 8:8; 8:8; 9:5; 9:5; 9:5

Nahum

3:8

Zechariah

10:11

H2975

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Strong's Number H2975 matches the Hebrew יְאֹר (yᵊ'ōr),
which occurs 65 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1 - At the end of two full years Pharaoh had a dream. As he was standing by the Nile,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - And if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to you, then take some water from the Nile and pour it out on the dry ground. The water you take out of the Nile will become blood on the dry ground."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Position yourself to meet him by the edge of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17 - Thus says the LORD: "By this you will know that I am the LORD: I am going to strike the water of the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile."'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt's waters - over their rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs - so that it becomes blood.' There will be blood everywhere in the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20 - Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD had commanded. Moses raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:25 - Seven full days passed after the LORD struck the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, in your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading troughs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - The LORD spoke to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, "You may have the honor over me - when shall I pray for you, your servants, and your people, for the frogs to be removed from you and your houses, so that they will be left only in the Nile?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - The frogs will depart from you, your houses, your servants, and your people; they will be left only in the Nile."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - The LORD said to Moses, "Go over before the people; take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:24 - I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 - He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44 - He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:18 - At that time the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 - along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:8 - The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water's surface will grieve.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:3 - the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:10 - Daughter Tarshish, travel back to your land, as one crosses the Nile; there is no longer any marketplace in Tyre.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:21 - Instead the LORD will rule there as our mighty king. Rivers and wide streams will flow through it; no war galley will enter; no large ships will sail through.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:7 - "Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 - Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt says, 'I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3 - Tell them, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: "'Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, "My Nile is my own, I made it for myself."

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4 - I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your waterways; you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because he said, "The Nile is mine and I made it,"

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - I am against you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border with Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:12 - I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the LORD, have spoken!

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:5 - I, Daniel, watched as two others stood there, one on each side of the river.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:6 - One said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river, "When will the end of these wondrous events occur?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:7 - Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky and made an oath by the one who lives forever: "It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished."

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 - Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5 - The sovereign LORD who commands armies will do this. He touches the earth and it dissolves; all who live on it mourn. The whole earth rises like the River Nile, and then grows calm like the Nile in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:8 - You are no more secure than Thebes - she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, her rampart was the sea, the water was her wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - The LORD will cross the sea of storms and will calm its turbulence. The depths of the Nile will dry up, the pride of Assyria will be humbled, and the domination of Egypt will be no more.
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