To flow
נָזַלStrong’s H5140nazal (na-zal)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nazal is the Hebrew word usually translated “streams”, “flow” and “let them flow”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.”
Meaning
- To flow, distil, flow forth or down, trickle, drop(Qal) · (Hiphil) to cause to flow
How it's translated
- streams 2
- they flow 2
- and streams 2
- let them flow 2
- it will flow 1
- may it distil 1
- they flowed 1
- and streams their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Isaiah 3
- Song of Solomon 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 24:7He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
- Deuteronomy 32:2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
- Judges 5:5The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
- Job 36:28Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
- Psalms 78:16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
- Psalms 78:44And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Hebrew dictionary
נָזַל nazal · to flow
1) to flow, distil, flow forth or down, trickle, drop 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to flow 1a1a) streams, floods (participle) 1a2) to distil 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to 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.]
- 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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.