nahar (to flow) · Rightly

Meaning

To flow, stream(Qal) to flow, stream
Illumination, insight

How it's translated

and they will stream 2
and they are radiant 1
and you will be radiant 1
and they will be radiant 1
they will stream 1

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

Where it's used most

Isaiah 2
Jeremiah 2
Psalms 1
Micah 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Isaiah 2:2And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Isaiah 60:5Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
Jeremiah 31:12Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Jeremiah 51:44And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Micah 4:1But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

Hebrew dictionary

נָהַר nahar · to flow

1) to flow, stream 1a) (Qal) to flow, stream

נְהִירוּ nehiru · illumination

illumination, insight Aramaic of na.har (נָהַר "to shine" H5102B)

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.]

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.
To melt; to become liquid.“That the mountains might flow down at they presence” Isaiah 64:1
To proceed; to issue.
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”

To be full; to be copious; as flowing cups or goblets.
To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperity; as a flowing period; flowing numbers.
To be smooth, as composition or utterance.
To hang loose and waving; as a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
To move in the arteries and veins of the body; to circulate, as blood.
To issue, as rays or beams of light.
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

A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as a flow of water; a flow of blood.
A current of water with a swell or rise; as the flow and ebb of tides.
A stream of any thing; as a flow of wealth into the country.
Abundance; copiousness with action; as a flow of spirits.
A stream of diction, denoting abundance of words at command and facility of speaking; volubility.
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.