River
נְהַרStrong’s H5104nehar (ne-har)
Appears in 108 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nehar is the Hebrew word usually translated “river”, “rivers” and “river of”. It appears in 108 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;”
Meaning
- This name means stream, river
- River
How it's translated
- the river 32
- rivers 18
- river of 17
- river 5
- and a river 4
- a river 4
- rivers of 4
- the rivers 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 21
- Psalms 13
- Ezekiel 12
- Genesis 6
- Jeremiah 6
- Joshua 5
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 9:10In contextAnd I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
- Genesis 2:10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
- Genesis 2:13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
- Genesis 2:14And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
- Genesis 15:18In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Genesis 31:21So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
All 108 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נָהָר nahar · River
This name means stream, river Another name of pe.rat (פְּרָת "Euphrates" H6578)
נְהַר nehar · river
river Aramaic of na.har (נָהָר "river" H5104H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “river” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RI'VER, noun
One who rives or splits.
All definitions and other forms of “river”
RIV'ER, noun
[Latin rivus, rivulus, rips.]
- A large stream of water flowing in a channel on land towards the ocean, a lake or another river It is larger than a rivulet or brook; but is applied to any stream from the size of a mill-stream to that of the Danube, Maranon and Mississippi.
- A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as rivers of blood; rivers of oil
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.