River

Usually translated “river”, “rivers” and “torrents”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• river 5
• rivers 3
• a river 3
• torrents 2
• stream 2
• of rivers 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Revelation 8
• Matthew 2
• Luke 2
• Mark 1
• John 1
• Acts 1

7 books in all.

• River (nehar)
• Stream (yeor)
• River (nehar)
• River (nehar)

• Matthew 7:27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
• Mark 1:5And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
• Luke 6:48He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
• Luke 6:49But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
• John 7:38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
• Acts 16:13And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “river” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.