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Stream

יָבָלStrong’s H2988

yaval (ya-val)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yaval is the Hebrew word usually translated “watercourses of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.”
Isaiah 30:25 KJV
Meaning
  1. A stream, watercourseas irrigating
How it's translated
  • watercourses of 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

יָבָל yaval · stream

1) a stream, watercourse 1a) as irrigating

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

  1. 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.
  2. A river, brook or rivulet.
  3. A current of water in the ocean; as the gulf stream
  4. 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”
  1. Any thing issuing from a source and moving with a continued succession of parts; as a stream of words; a stream of sand.
  2. A continued current of course; as a stream of weather. [Not used.]
  3. A current of air or gas, or of light.
  4. Current; drift; as of opinions or manners.
  5. Water.

STREAM, verb intransitive

  1. To flow; to move or run in a continuous current.
  2. To emit; to pour out in abundance.
  3. To issue with continuance, not by fits.
  4. To issue or shoot in streaks; as light streaming from the east.
  5. 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.