River
נְהַרStrong’s H6578nehar (ne-har)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nehar is the Hebrew word usually translated “euphrates”, “perath towards” and “at perath”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.”
Meaning
- The River
How it's translated
- euphrates 14
- perath towards 3
- at perath 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 8
- Genesis 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- 2 Kings 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Joshua 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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:
- Deuteronomy 1:7Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
- Deuteronomy 11:24Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
- Joshua 1:4From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
- 2 Kings 23:29In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
- 2 Kings 24:7And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
Hebrew dictionary
נְהַר nehar · River
The River Aramaic of pe.rat (פְּרָת "Euphrates" H6578)
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.