Strong's #650: 'aphiyq (pronounced aw-feek')
from 622; properly, containing, i.e. a tube; also a bed or valley of a stream; also a strong thing or a hero:--brook, channel, mighty, river, + scale, stream, strong piece.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âphı̂yq
1) channel
2) ravine
3) of hollow bones (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H622
Usage:
This word is used 19 times:
2 Samuel 22:16: " And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD,"
Job 6:15: "have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;"
Job 12:21: "princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty."
Job 40:18: " are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron."
Job 41:15: " His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal."
Psalms 18:15: " Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke,"
Psalms 42:1: "panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after"
Psalms 126:4: "our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south."
Song of Solomon 5:12: "are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set."
Isaiah 8:7: "and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:"
Ezekiel 6:3: "GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring"
Ezekiel 31:12: "and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth"
Ezekiel 32:6: "the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of"
Ezekiel 34:13: "them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country."
Ezekiel 35:8: "men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword."
Ezekiel 36:4: "GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities"
Ezekiel 36:6: "and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord"
Joel 1:20: "also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured"
Joel 3:18: "shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain"