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Lexicon :: Strong's H5104 - nāhār

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נָהָר
Transliteration
nāhār
Pronunciation
naw-hawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1315a

Strong’s Definitions

נָהָר nâhâr, naw-hawr'; from H5102; a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity:—flood, river.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 120x

The KJV translates Strong's H5104 in the following manner: river (98x), flood (18x), streams (2x), Aramnaharaim (with H763) (1x), river side (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 120x
The KJV translates Strong's H5104 in the following manner: river (98x), flood (18x), streams (2x), Aramnaharaim (with H763) (1x), river side (1x).
  1. stream, river

    1. stream, river

    2. (underground) streams

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָהָר nâhâr, naw-hawr'; from H5102; a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity:—flood, river.
STRONGS H5104: Abbreviations
נָהָר 120> noun masculineGenesis 2:10 stream, river; — absolute נ׳ Genesis 2:10 +; construct נְהַר Deuteronomy 1:7 +; plural נְהָרִים Isaiah 18:27 + 4 times, construct נַהֲרֵי Isaiah 18:1 + 2 times; but oftener נְהָר(וֺ)ת Isaiah 19:6 + 23 times; construct נַהֲרוֺת 2 Kings 5:12 + 2 times; suffix נַהֲרוֺהֶיךָ Ezekiel 32:2, נַהֲרֹתַיִךְ Isaiah 44:27, נַהֲרֹתֶיהָ Ezekiel 31:4, 15, נַהֲרֹתָם Exodus 7:19, נַהֲרוֺתָם Ezekiel 32:2, 14; apparently dual נַהֲרַיִם Genesis 24:10 + 2 times, נַהֲרָ֑יִם Judges 3:8 (see below) (all in אֲרַם נ׳); —
1. stream, river, Numbers 24:6 (JE), Job 14:11; Job 40:23; Psalm 105:41 (in simile), Isaiah 48:18 (id.), Isaiah 59:19 (id.) + often; frequently of particular rivers; rivers of Eden Genesis 2:10 and its branches Genesis 2:13; Genesis 2:14 (all J); נְהַר מִצְרַיִם Genesis 15:18 (J; i.e., si vera lectio, the Nile) but read probably נַחַל מ׳, whence נהר through influence of following נהר — compare 2 Kings 24:7 — NöZMG xi.1886, 699 (alternative), LagBN 140 BallHpt; נָהָר of Nile Isaiah 19:5; especially of Euphrates פְּרָת נְהַר Genesis 15:18; Deuteronomy 1:7 (both + הַגָּדוֺל הַנּ׳) Joshua 1:4 + 8 times + 2 Samuel 8:3 (Qr Greek Version of the LXX and || 1 Chronicles 18:3; Kt omit פְּרָת; — compare also Genesis 2:14b above); oftener (of Euphrates) without הַנָּהָר ׃פ׳ κατ’ ἐξοχήν, Genesis 31:21; Exodus 23:31; Numbers 22:5; Joshua 24:2, 3, 14, 15 (all E), possibly also Genesis 36:37 (P; compare Di) = 1 Chronicles 1:48, + 13 times + 2 Samuel 8:3 Kt (see above); and even without article (poetry) † Isaiah 7:20; Jeremiah 2:18; Micah 7:12; Zechariah 9:10; Psalm 72:8; הַגּ׳ הַנּ׳ once of Tigris † Daniel 10:4; † נְהַר גוֺזָן (חבור) 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11 compare 2 Chron 5:26; plural נַהֲרֵי בוּשׁ Zephaniah 3:10; perhaps of a canal: נְהַרכְּֿבָר Ezekiel 1:1, Ezekiel 1:3, + 6 times Ezekiel; הַנָּהָר אַהֲלוא Ezra 8:21, נְהַר א׳ Ezra 8:31; compare נַהֲרוֺת בָּבֶל Psalm 137:1; canals possibly also in שַׁעֲרֵי הַנּ׳ Nahum 2:7 (of Nineveh); of canals of Egypt Exodus 7:19 (|| יְאֹרִים etc.), Exodus 8:1 (|| id.).
2. נְהָרוֺת (מִבְּכִי) Job 28:11 usually understood of (underground) streams; SzoldComm. Job GrMonatsschr.1887, 410 and PerlesAnalekten 69 proposes נ׳ נִבְכֵ׳ sources of rivers (compare Job 36:16); Wetzst Hoffm Bu נ׳ מַבְּכֵ׳ (not elsewhere) with similar meaning.
3. figurative of י׳'s favour Psalm 46:5. — On נַהֲרַיִם ending apparently dual, see אֲרַם; Tel Amarna Na-ri-ma, Naḫrima (WklTel Am. 40*), and Egyptian Nhrina (WMMAs. u. Eur. 249ff.) point however to original ending יִ֯ם; this inconsistent with view of EMeyGeschichte. § 180 that יִַ֯ם here a locative ending (compare Ba§ 194 c. Anm. l BuhlGes 12), see also DiGenesis 24:10.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:10; 2:10; 2:10; 2:13; 2:14; 2:14; 15:18; 15:18; 24:10; 24:10; 31:21; 36:37

Exodus

7:19; 7:19; 8:1; 23:31

Numbers

22:5; 24:6

Deuteronomy

1:7; 1:7

Joshua

1:4; 24:2; 24:3; 24:14; 24:15

Judges

3:8

2 Samuel

8:3; 8:3

2 Kings

5:12; 17:6; 18:11; 24:7

1 Chronicles

1:48; 18:3

Ezra

8:21; 8:31

Job

14:11; 28:11; 36:16; 40:23

Psalms

46:5; 72:8; 105:41; 137:1

Isaiah

7:20; 18:1; 19:5; 19:6; 44:27; 48:18; 59:19

Jeremiah

2:18

Ezekiel

1:1; 1:3; 31:4; 31:15; 32:2; 32:2; 32:14

Daniel

10:4

Micah

7:12

Nahum

2:7

Zephaniah

3:10

Zechariah

9:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5104 matches the Hebrew נָהָר (nāhār),
which occurs 119 times in 108 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Psa 74:15–Dan 10:4)

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:15 -

[fn]You split open spring and river;

[fn]You dried up ever-flowing rivers H5104.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 -

He brought forth streams also from the cliff face

And caused waters to run down like rivers H5104.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:11 -

It sent out its branches to the sea

And its shoots to the River H5104.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:25 -

“I shall also set his hand on the sea

And his right hand on the rivers H5104.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 93:3 -

The rivers H5104 have lifted up, O Yahweh,

The rivers H5104 have lifted up their voice,

The rivers H5104 lift up their pounding waves.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:8 -

Let the rivers H5104 clap their hands,

Let the mountains sing together for joy

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:41 -

He opened the [fn]rock and water flowed out;

[fn]It ran in the dry places like a river H5104.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:33 -

He [fn]makes rivers H5104 into a [fn]wilderness

And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:1 -

By the rivers H5104 of Babylon,

There we sat and also wept,

When we remembered Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:7 -

“Many waters cannot quench love,

Nor will rivers H5104 overflow it;

If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love,

It would be utterly despised.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 -

In that day, the Lord will shave with a razorone hired from regions beyond the [fn]River H5104 (that is, the king of Assyria)—the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:7 -

Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the mighty and abundant waters of the [fn]River H5104

The king of Assyria and all his glory;

And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 -

And Yahweh will devote to destruction

The tongue of the [fn]Sea of Egypt;

And He will wave His hand over the [fn]River H5104

With His scorching wind;

And He will strike it into seven streams

And make men walk over [fn]dry-shod.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:1 -

Alas, O land of whirring wings

Which lies beyond the rivers H5104 of [fn]Ethiopia,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:2 -

Which sends envoys by the sea,

Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.

Go, swift messengers, to a nation [fn]tall and smooth,

To a people feared [fn]far and wide,

A powerful and oppressive nation

Whose land the rivers H5104 divide.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:7 -

At that time a gift of homage will be brought to Yahweh of hosts

[fn]From a people [fn]tall and smooth,

Even from a people feared [fn]far and wide,

A powerful and oppressive nation,

Whose land the rivers H5104 divide

To the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, even Mount Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:5 -

The waters from the sea will dry up,

And the river H5104 will be parched and dry.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 -

The rivers H5104 will emit a stench,

The [fn]streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up;

The reeds and rushes will rot away.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 -

And it will be in that day, that Yahweh will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the [fn]River H5104 to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:21 -

But there the Mighty One, Yahweh, will be for us

A place of rivers H5104 and wide canals

On which no boat with oars will go,

And on which no mighty ship will pass

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 -

“I will open rivers H5104 on the bare heights

And springs in the midst of the valleys;

I will make the wilderness a pool of water

And the dry land fountains of water.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:15 -

“I will lay waste the mountains and hills

And dry up all their vegetation;

I will make the rivers H5104 into coastlands

And dry up the pools of waters.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:2 -

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;

And through the rivers H5104, they will not overflow you.

When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched,

Nor will the flame burn you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:19 -

“Behold, I will do something new;

Now it will spring forth;

Will you not know it?

I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,

Rivers H5104 in the wasteland.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 -

“The beasts of the field will glorify Me,

The jackals and the ostriches,

Because I have given waters in the wilderness

And rivers H5104 in the wasteland,

To give drink to My chosen people.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 -

It is I who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Be dried up!’

And I will make your rivers H5104 dry.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:2 -

“Take the millstones and grind flour.

Uncover your veil, strip off the skirt,

Uncover the leg, cross the rivers H5104.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 -

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!

Then your peace would have been like a river H5104,

And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 -

“Why was there no man when I came?

When I called, why was there none to answer?

Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?

Or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke;

I make the rivers H5104 a wilderness;

Their fish stink for lack of water

And die of thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:19 -

So they will fear the name of Yahweh from the west

And His glory from the rising of the sun,

For He will come like a [fn]rushing stream H5104

Which the wind of Yahweh makes flee.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:12 -

For thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I stretch out peace to her like a river H5104,

And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;

And you will [fn]be nursed; you will be carried on the [fn]hip and played with on the knees.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:18 -

“But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt,

To drink the waters of the [fn]Nile?

Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria,

To drink the waters of the [fn]River H5104?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 -

To Egypt, concerning the military force of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River H5104 at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6 -

Let not the swift man flee,

Nor the mighty man escape;

In the north beside the river H5104 Euphrates

They have stumbled and fallen.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:7 -

Who is this that rises like the Nile,

Like the rivers H5104 whose waters toss about?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 -

Egypt rises like the Nile,

Even like the rivers H5104 whose waters toss about;

And He has said, “I will rise and cover that land;

I will surely cause the city to perish, as well as its inhabitants.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 -

Indeed, that day belongs to Lord Yahweh of hosts,

A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His adversaries;

And the sword will devour and be satiated

And [fn]drink its fill of their blood;

For there will be a sacrifice to Lord Yahweh of hosts

In the land of the north by the river H5104 Euphrates.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:1 -

Now it happened in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river H5104 Chebar among the exiles, that the heavens were opened, and I saw [fn]visions of God.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:3 - the word of [fn]Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river H5104 Chebar; and there the hand of Yahweh came upon him.)
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:15 - Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the river H5104 Chebar at Tel-abib, and I sat there seven days where they were living, causing [fn]consternation among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:23 - So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory of Yahweh was standing there, like the glory which I saw by the river H5104 Chebar, and I fell on my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:15 -

Then the cherubim rose up. They are the living creatures that I saw by the river H5104 Chebar.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:20 -

These are the living creatures that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the river H5104 Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:22 - As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river H5104 Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 -

‘The waters made it grow; the [fn]deep made it high.

With its rivers H5104 it was going all around its planting place

And sent out its conduits to all the trees of the field.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 -

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I covered it with the [fn]deep over it and held back its rivers H5104. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon [fn]mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - “Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,

‘You liken yourself to a young lion of the nations,

Yet you are like the monster in the seas;

And you burst forth in your rivers H5104

And muddied the waters with your feet

And [fn]fouled their rivers H5104.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:14 -

“Then I will make their waters settle

And will cause their rivers H5104 to [fn]run like oil,”

Declares Lord Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:3 - And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when [fn]He came to bring the city to ruin. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the river H5104 Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:4 -

And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was by the bank of the great river H5104, that is, the [fn]Tigris,


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