Stream
פֶּ֫לֶגStrong’s H6388peleg (pe-leg)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peleg is the Hebrew word usually translated “streams of”, “streams its” and “stream of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;”
Meaning
- Channel, canal
How it's translated
- streams of 6
- streams its 1
- stream of 1
- streams 1
- like streams of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
- Job 1
- Lamentations 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 1:3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
- Psalms 46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
- Psalms 65:9Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
- Psalms 119:136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
- Proverbs 5:16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
- Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫לֶג peleg · stream
channel, canal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stream” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STREAM, noun
- A current of water or other fluid; a liquid substance flowing in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river or brook, or from a vessel or other reservoir or fountain.
- A river, brook or rivulet.
- A current of water in the ocean; as the gulf stream
- A current of melted metal or other substance; as a stream of lead or iron flowing from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
All definitions and other forms of “stream”
- Any thing issuing from a source and moving with a continued succession of parts; as a stream of words; a stream of sand.
- A continued current of course; as a stream of weather. [Not used.]
- A current of air or gas, or of light.
- Current; drift; as of opinions or manners.
- Water.
STREAM, verb intransitive
- To flow; to move or run in a continuous current.
- To emit; to pour out in abundance.
- To issue with continuance, not by fits.
- To issue or shoot in streaks; as light streaming from the east.
- To extend; to stretch in a long line; as a flag streaming in the wind.
STREAM, verb transitive
To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
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.