Stream
יְאֹרStrong’s H2975yeor (ye-or)
Appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yeor is the Hebrew word usually translated “river”, “canals your” and “canals of”. It appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.”
Meaning
- This name means river, stream, canal
- River, stream, canal, Nile, Nile-canalstream, river (Nile) · Nile-arms, Nile-canals · watercourses · shafts (mining) · river (in general)
How it's translated
- the river 25
- in the river 8
- river 6
- canals your 5
- canals of 4
- like the river 4
- canals their 2
- canals 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 17
- Isaiah 8
- Ezekiel 6
- Genesis 5
- Daniel 3
- Jeremiah 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 12:6In contextAnd one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
- Daniel 12:7In contextAnd I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
- Zechariah 10:11In contextAnd he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
- Genesis 41:1And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
- Genesis 41:2And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
- Genesis 41:3And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
All 48 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יְאֹר yeor · Nile
This name means river, stream, canal Also named: shi.chor (שִׁיחוֹר "Nile" H7883H)
יְאֹר yeor · stream
1) river, stream, canal, Nile, Nile-canal 1a) stream, river (Nile) 1b) Nile-arms, Nile-canals 1c) watercourses 1d) shafts (mining) 1e) river (in general)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stream” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STREAM, noun
- A current of water or other fluid; a liquid substance flowing in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river or brook, or from a vessel or other reservoir or fountain.
- A river, brook or rivulet.
- A current of water in the ocean; as the gulf stream
- A current of melted metal or other substance; as a stream of lead or iron flowing from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
All definitions and other forms of “stream”
- Any thing issuing from a source and moving with a continued succession of parts; as a stream of words; a stream of sand.
- A continued current of course; as a stream of weather. [Not used.]
- A current of air or gas, or of light.
- Current; drift; as of opinions or manners.
- Water.
STREAM, verb intransitive
- To flow; to move or run in a continuous current.
- To emit; to pour out in abundance.
- To issue with continuance, not by fits.
- To issue or shoot in streaks; as light streaming from the east.
- To extend; to stretch in a long line; as a flag streaming in the wind.
STREAM, verb transitive
To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
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.