Strong's #2975: y`or (pronounced yeh-ore')
of Egyptian origin; a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria:--brook, flood, river, stream.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ye'ôr
1) river, stream, canal, Nile, Nile-canal
1a) stream, river (Nile)
1b) Nile-arms, Nile-canals
1c) watercourses
1d) shafts (mining)
1e) river (in general)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: of Egyptian origin
Usage:
This word is used 65 times:
Genesis 41:1: "that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river."
Genesis 41:2: "And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favored kine"
Genesis 41:3: "came up after them out of the river, favored and leanfleshed;"
Genesis 41:3: "by the other kine upon the brink of the river."
Genesis 41:17: "I stood upon of the river:"
Genesis 41:18: "And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed"
Exodus 1:22: "son that is born into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive."
Exodus 2:3: "therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink."
Exodus 2:5: "came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along the river's"
Exodus 2:5: "and her maidens walked along the river's side; and when she saw the ark"
Exodus 4:9: "unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water"
Exodus 4:9: "land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry"
Exodus 7:15: "unto the water; and thou shalt stand the river's brink against he come; and the rod which"
Exodus 7:17: "upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood."
Exodus 7:18: "And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe"
Exodus 7:18: "that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe"
Exodus 7:18: "of the water of the river."
Exodus 7:19: "upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all"
Exodus 7:20: "the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants;"
Exodus 7:20: "and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood."
Exodus 7:21: "And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could"
Exodus 7:21: "that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could"
Exodus 7:21: "drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land"
Exodus 7:24: "the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for"
Exodus 7:24: "not drink of the water of the river."
Exodus 7:25: "that the LORD had smitten the river."
Exodus 8:3: " And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber,"
Exodus 8:5: "over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs"
Exodus 8:9: "from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?"
Exodus 8:11: "thee and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river"
Exodus 17:5: "and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go."
2 Kings 19:24: "of my feet have I dried up the rivers of besieged places."
Job 28:10: "He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing."
Psalms 78:44: "And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink."
Isaiah 7:18: "for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land"
Isaiah 19:6: "And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags"
Isaiah 19:7: "The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown"
Isaiah 19:7: "the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown shall wither,"
Isaiah 19:7: "of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no"
Isaiah 19:8: "and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread upon"
Isaiah 23:3: "the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is of nations."
Isaiah 23:10: "Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength."
Isaiah 33:21: "the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go galley"
Isaiah 37:25: "of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places."
Jeremiah 46:7: "Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?"
Jeremiah 46:8: "Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up,"
Ezekiel 29:3: "dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I"
Ezekiel 29:3: "of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made"
Ezekiel 29:4: "hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up"
Ezekiel 29:4: "unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers"
