Brook
מִיכָלStrong’s H4323mikhal (mi-khal)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mikhal is the Hebrew word usually translated “brook of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Brook, streammeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- brook of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מִיכָל mikhal · brook
1) brook, stream 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “brook” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BROOK, noun
[Gr. to rain, to pour, to flow.]
A small natural stream of water, or a current flowing from a spring or fountain less than a river. In some parts of America, run is used in a like sense; but run is also applied to larger streams than brook
All definitions and other forms of “brook”
BROOK, verb transitive
[Gr. to eat, to grind the teeth.]
Literally, to chew or digest, as the Fr. digerir. Hence,
BROOK'-LIME, noun
[brook and lime.]
A plant, a species of Veronica, called becabunga, with blue flowers in loose lateral spikes.
BROOK'-MINT, noun
The water mint.
BROOK'-WEED, noun
A plant, water pimpernel, the Samolus.
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.