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To flow

נְגַדStrong’s H5047

negad (ne-gad)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

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Negad is the Aramaic word usually translated “flowing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.”
Daniel 7:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Pael) to stream, flow
How it's translated
  • flowing 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    נְגַד negad · to flow

    (Pael) to stream, flow

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    FLOW, verb intransitive

    [Latin fluo, contracted from fugo, for it forms fluri, fuctum. In one case, the word would agree with the root of blow, Latin flo; in the other, with the root of fly.]

    1. To move along an inclined plane, or on descending ground, by the operation of gravity, and with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid.
    2. To melt; to become liquid.“That the mountains might flow down at they presence” Isaiah 64:1
    3. To proceed; to issue.
    4. To abound; to have in abundance.“In that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk” Joel 3:18
    All definitions and other forms of “flow”
    1. To be full; to be copious; as flowing cups or goblets.
    2. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperity; as a flowing period; flowing numbers.
    3. To be smooth, as composition or utterance.
    4. To hang loose and waving; as a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
    5. To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
    6. To move in the arteries and veins of the body; to circulate, as blood.
    7. To issue, as rays or beams of light.
    8. To move in a stream, as air.

    FLOW, verb transitive

    To cover with water; to overflow; to inundate. The low grounds along the river are annually flowed.

      FLOW, noun

      1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as a flow of water; a flow of blood.
      2. A current of water with a swell or rise; as the flow and ebb of tides.
      3. A stream of any thing; as a flow of wealth into the country.
      4. Abundance; copiousness with action; as a flow of spirits.
      5. A stream of diction, denoting abundance of words at command and facility of speaking; volubility.
      6. Free expression or communication of generous feelings and sentiments.

      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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.