Strong's #5158: nachal (pronounced nakh'-alor)
(feminine) nachlah (Psalm 124:4) {nakh'-law}; or nachalah (Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) {nakh-al-aw'}; from 5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine):--brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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nachal / nachlâh / nachălâh
1) torrent, valley, wadi, torrent-valley
1a) torrent
1b) torrent-valley, wadi (as stream bed)
1c) shaft (of mine)
2) palm-tree
2a) meaning dubious
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H5157 in its original sense
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1343a, 1343b
Usage:
This word is used 141 times:
Judges 4:7: "And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain"
Judges 4:13: "were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon."
Judges 5:21: " The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul,"
Judges 5:21: "of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down"
Judges 5:21: "swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength."
Judges 16:4: "afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah."
1 Samuel 15:5: "a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley."
1 Samuel 17:40: "smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which"
1 Samuel 30:9: "were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed."
1 Samuel 30:10: "which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor."
1 Samuel 30:21: "that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet"
2 Samuel 15:23: "passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over,"
2 Samuel 17:13: "city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small"
2 Samuel 22:5: "the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;"
2 Samuel 23:30: "Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,"
2 Samuel 24:5: "of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:"
1 Kings 2:37: "thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that"
1 Kings 8:65: "from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD"
1 Kings 15:13: "destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron."
1 Kings 17:3: "thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before"
1 Kings 17:4: "And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
1 Kings 17:5: "of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before"
1 Kings 17:6: "in the evening; and he drank of the brook."
1 Kings 17:7: "And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been"
1 Kings 18:5: "of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive,"
1 Kings 18:40: "them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there."
2 Kings 3:16: "the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches."
2 Kings 3:17: "shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye,"
2 Kings 10:33: "and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead"
2 Kings 23:6: "of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned"
2 Kings 23:6: "Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small"
2 Kings 23:12: "and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron."
2 Kings 24:7: "had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates"
1 Chronicles 11:32: "Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,"
2 Chronicles 7:8: "from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt."
2 Chronicles 15:16: "her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron."
2 Chronicles 20:16: "of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel."
2 Chronicles 29:16: "took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron."
2 Chronicles 30:14: "the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron."
2 Chronicles 32:4: "all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying,"
2 Chronicles 33:14: "of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate and compassed about"
Nehemiah 2:15: "Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back,"
Job 6:15: "My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;"
Job 6:15: "as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;"
Job 20:17: "see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter."
Job 21:33: "The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable"
Job 22:24: "dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks."
Job 28:4: " The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot:"
Job 30:6: "To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks."
Job 40:22: "cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about."
