River
אוּבַלStrong’s H0180uval (u-val)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Uval is the Hebrew word usually translated “canal” and “canal of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.”
Meaning
- Stream, river
How it's translated
- the canal 2
- canal of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:3In contextThen I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
- Daniel 8:6In contextAnd he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.
Hebrew dictionary
אוּבַל uval · river
stream, river
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “river” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RI'VER, noun
One who rives or splits.
All definitions and other forms of “river”
RIV'ER, noun
[Latin rivus, rivulus, rips.]
- A large stream of water flowing in a channel on land towards the ocean, a lake or another river It is larger than a rivulet or brook; but is applied to any stream from the size of a mill-stream to that of the Danube, Maranon and Mississippi.
- A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as rivers of blood; rivers of oil
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.