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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
Dictionary Aids

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 - And it cometh to pass, at the end of two years of days that Pharaoh is dreaming, and lo, he is standing by the River,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - and lo, from the River coming up are seven kine, of fair appearance, and fat in flesh, and they feed among the reeds;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them out of the River, of bad appearance, and lean in flesh, and they stand near the kine on the edge of the River,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph: 'In my dream, lo, I am standing by the edge of the River,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - and lo, out of the River coming up are seven kine, fat in flesh, and of fair form, and they feed among the reeds;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, 'Every son who is born -- into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - and she hath not been able any more to hide him, and she taketh for him an ark of rushes, and daubeth it with bitumen and with pitch, and putteth the lad in it, and putteth it in the weeds by the edge of the River;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - And a daughter of Pharaoh cometh down to bathe at the River, and her damsels are walking by the side of the River, and she seeth the ark in the midst of the weeds, and sendeth her handmaid, and she taketh it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - 'And it hath come to pass, if they do not give credence even to these two signs, nor hearken to thy voice, that thou hast taken of the waters of the River, and hast poured on the dry land, and the waters which thou takest from the River have been, yea, they have become -- blood on the dry land.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - go unto Pharaoh in the morning, lo, he is going out to the water, and thou hast stood to meet him by the edge of the River, and the rod which was turned to a serpent thou dost take in thy hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17 - 'Thus said Jehovah: By this thou knowest that I am Jehovah; lo, I am smiting with the rod which is in my hand, on the waters which are in the River, and they have been turned to blood,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - and the fish that are in the River die, and the River hath stank, and the Egyptians have been wearied of drinking waters from the River.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand against the waters of Egypt, against their streams, against their rivers, and against their ponds, and against all their collections of waters; and they are blood -- and there hath been blood in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in those of stone.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20 - And Moses and Aaron do so, as Jehovah hath commanded, and he lifteth up his hand with the rod, and smiteth the waters which are in the River, before the eyes of Pharaoh, and before the eyes of his servants, and all the waters which are in the River are turned to blood,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - and the fish which is in the River hath died, and the River stinketh, and the Egyptians have not been able to drink water from the River; and the blood is in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - and all the Egyptians seek water round about the river to drink, for they have not been able to drink of the waters of the River.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:25 - And seven days are completed after Jehovah's smiting the River,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - and the River hath teemed with frogs, and they have gone up and gone into thy house, and into the inner-chamber of thy bed, and on thy couch, and into the house of thy servants, and among thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy hand, with thy rod, against the streams, against the rivers, and against the ponds, and cause the frogs to come up against the land of Egypt.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - And Moses saith to Pharaoh, 'Beautify thyself over me; when do I make supplication for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to cut off the frogs from thee and from thy houses -- only in the River they do remain?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - and the frogs have turned aside from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; only in the River they do remain.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Pass over before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel, and thy rod with which thou hast smitten the River take in thy hand, and thou hast gone:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:24 - I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 - Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious thing hath his eye seen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44 - And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:18 - And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah doth hiss for a fly that is in the extremity of the brooks of Egypt, And for a bee that is in the land of Asshur.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 - Exposed things by the brook, by the edge of the brook, And every sown thing of the brook, hath withered, It hath been driven away, and is not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:8 - And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:3 - And in many waters is the seed of Sihor, The harvest of the brook is her increase, And she is a mart of nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:10 - Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:21 - But there mighty is Jehovah for us, A place of rivers -- streams broad of sides, No ship with oars doth go into it, And a mighty ship doth not pass over it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:7 - Who is this? as a flood he cometh up, As rivers do his waters shake themselves!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 - Egypt, as a flood cometh up, And as rivers the waters shake themselves. And he saith, I go up; I cover the land, I destroy the city and the inhabitants in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3 - Speak, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt! The great dragon that is crouching in the midst of his floods, Who hath said, My flood is my own, And I -- I have made it for myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4 - And I have put hooks in thy jaws, And I have caused the fish of thy floods to cleave to thy scales, And I have caused thee to come up from the midst of thy floods, And every fish of thy floods to thy scales doth cleave.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - And I have left thee in the wilderness, Thou and every fish of thy floods, On the face of the field thou dost fall, Thou art not gathered nor assembled, To the beast of the earth and to the fowl of the heavens I have given thee for food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - And the land of Egypt hath been for a desolation and a waste, And they have known that I am Jehovah. Because he said: The flood is mine, and I made it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - Therefore, lo, I am against thee, and against thy floods, And have given the land of Egypt for wastes, A waste, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene, And unto the border of Cush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:12 - And I have made floods a dry place, And I have sold the land into the hand of evil doers, And I have made desolate the land, And its fulness, by the hand of strangers, I, Jehovah, have spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:5 - And I have looked -- I, Daniel -- and lo, two others are standing, one here at the edge of the flood, and one there at the edge of the flood,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:6 - and he saith to the one clothed in linen, who is upon the waters of the flood, 'Till when is the end of these wonders?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:7 - And I hear the one clothed in linen, who is upon the waters of the flood, and he doth lift up his right hand and his left unto the heavens, and sweareth by Him who is living to the age, that, 'After a time, times, and a half, and at the completion of the scattering of the power of the holy people, finished are all these.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 - For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5 - And it is the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Who is striking against the land, and it melteth, And mourned have all the inhabitants in it, And come up as a flood hath all of it, And it hath sunk -- like the flood of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:8 - Art thou better than No-Ammon, That is dwelling among brooks? Waters she hath round about her, Whose bulwark is the sea, waters her wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - And He hath passed over through the sea, And hath pressed and smitten billows in the sea, And dried up have been all depths of a flood, And brought down hath been the excellency of Asshur, And the rod of Egypt doth turn aside.
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