Lexicon :: Strong's H5104 - nāhār

You opened up springs and streams;

you dried up ever-flowing rivers.

He brought streams out of the stone

and made water flow down like rivers.

It sent out sprouts toward the Sea[fn]

and shoots toward the River.[fn]

“I will extend his power to the sea

and his right hand to the rivers.

The floods have lifted up, LORD,

the floods have lifted up their voice;

the floods lift up their pounding waves.

Let the rivers clap their hands;

let the mountains shout together for joy

He opened a rock, and water gushed out;

it flowed like a stream in the desert.

He turns rivers into desert,

springs into thirsty ground,

By the rivers of Babylon —

there we sat down and wept

when we remembered Zion.

A huge torrent cannot extinguish love;

rivers cannot sweep it away.

If a man were to give all his wealth[fn] for love,

it would be utterly scorned.

On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River ​— ​the king of Assyria ​— ​to shave the hair on your heads, the hair on your legs, and even your beards.

the Lord will certainly bring against them

the mighty rushing water of the Euphrates River —

the king of Assyria and all his glory.

It will overflow its channels

and spill over all its banks.

The LORD will divide[fn][fn] the Gulf of Suez.[fn]

He will wave his hand over the Euphrates

with his mighty wind

and will split it into seven streams,

letting people walk through on foot.

Woe to the land of buzzing insect wings[fn]

beyond the rivers of Cush,

The water of the sea will dry up,

and the river will be parched and dry.

On that day

the LORD will thresh grain from the Euphrates River

as far as the Wadi of Egypt,

and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.

For the majestic one, our LORD, will be there,

a place of rivers and broad streams

where ships that are rowed will not go,

and majestic vessels will not pass.

I will open rivers on the barren heights,

and springs in the middle of the plains.

I will turn the desert into a pool

and dry land into springs.

“I will lay waste mountains and hills

and dry up all their vegetation.

I will turn rivers into islands

and dry up marshes.

“When you pass through the waters,

I will be with you,

and the rivers will not overwhelm you.

When you walk through the fire,

you will not be scorched,

and the flame will not burn you.

who says to the depths of the sea, “Be dry,”

and I will dry up your rivers;

“Take millstones and grind flour;

remove your veil,

strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,

wade through the streams.

If only you had paid attention to my commands.

Then your peace would have been like a river,

and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Why was no one there when I came?

Why was there no one to answer when I called?

Is my arm too weak to redeem?

Or do I have no power to rescue?

Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;

I turn the rivers into a wilderness;

their fish rot because of lack of water

and die of thirst.

They will fear the name of the LORD in the west

and his glory in the east;[fn]

for he will come like a rushing stream

driven by the wind of the LORD.

For this is what the LORD says:

I will make peace flow to her like a river,

and the wealth[fn] of nations like a flood;

you will nurse and be carried on her hip

and bounced on her lap.

Now what will you gain

by traveling along the way to Egypt

to drink the water of the Nile?[fn]

What will you gain

by traveling along the way to Assyria

to drink the water of the Euphrates?

About Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco, Egypt’s king, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in the fourth year of Judah’s King Jehoiakim son of Josiah:

In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was among the exiles by the Chebar Canal, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were living by the Chebar Canal, and I sat there among them stunned for seven days.

The cherubim ascended; these were the living creatures I had seen by the Chebar Canal.

“The waters caused it to grow;

the underground springs made it tall,

directing their rivers all around

the place where the tree was planted

and sending their channels

to all the trees of the field.

“Son of man, lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,

‘You compare yourself to a lion of the nations,

but[fn] you are like a monster[fn] in the seas.

You thrash about in your rivers,

churn up the waters with your feet,

and muddy the[fn] rivers.

The vision I saw was like the one I had seen when he[fn] came to destroy the city, and like the ones I had seen by the Chebar Canal. I fell facedown.

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month,[fn] as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,