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:
Ezekiel 29:4: "of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales."
Ezekiel 29:5: "thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open"
Ezekiel 29:9: "because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made"
Ezekiel 29:10: "therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land"
Ezekiel 30:12: "And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked:"
Daniel 12:5: "the one of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river."
Daniel 12:5: "and the other on that side of the bank of the river."
Daniel 12:6: "which was upon the waters of the river, shall it be to the end"
Daniel 12:7: "which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand"
Amos 8:8: "that dwelleth wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."
Amos 8:8: "as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."
Amos 9:5: "and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."
Amos 9:5: "wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."
Nahum 3:8: "than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose"
Zechariah 10:11: "in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down,"
