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:
Psalms 18:4: "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid."
Psalms 36:8: "with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures."
Psalms 74:15: "Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers."
Psalms 78:20: "the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread"
Psalms 83:9: "unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:"
Psalms 104:10: "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills."
Psalms 110:7: "He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head."
Psalms 124:4: "Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:"
Proverbs 18:4: "and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook."
Proverbs 30:17: "to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat"
Ecclesiastes 1:7: "All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full;"
Ecclesiastes 1:7: "full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they"
Song of Solomon 6:11: "of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates"
Isaiah 7:19: "and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns,"
Isaiah 11:15: "the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dry-shod."
Isaiah 15:7: "they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows."
Isaiah 27:12: "from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered"
Isaiah 30:28: "And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations"
Isaiah 30:33: "and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle"
Isaiah 34:9: " And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning"
Isaiah 35:6: "in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert."
Isaiah 57:5: "tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?"
Isaiah 57:6: "Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured"
Isaiah 66:12: "and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides,"
Jeremiah 31:9: "will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not"
Jeremiah 31:40: "and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse"
Jeremiah 47:2: "out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all"
Lamentations 2:18: "of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no"
Ezekiel 47:5: "Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for"
Ezekiel 47:5: "were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over."
Ezekiel 47:6: "this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river."
Ezekiel 47:7: "behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side"
Ezekiel 47:9: "which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come,"
Ezekiel 47:9: "shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river"
Ezekiel 47:12: "And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side,"
Ezekiel 47:19: "even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea."
Ezekiel 48:28: "even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea."
Joel 3:18: "of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim."
Amos 5:24: "as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."
Amos 6:14: "you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness."
Micah 6:7: "with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,"
