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And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
Read in context →And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
Read in context →20 occurrences in 16 verses.
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nâhâr · naw-hawr'
a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
Strong's KJV usage: flood, river.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 5:12Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:10
Open full H5104 profile →yᵉʼôr · yeh-ore'
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
Strong's KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream.
Strong's first: Exodus 7:19Strong's last: Nahum 3:8
Open full H2975 profile →ʼâphîyq · aw-feek'
properly, containing, i.e. a tube; also a bed or valley of a stream; also a strong thing or a hero
Strong's KJV usage: brook, channel, mighty, river, scale, stream, strong piece.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 5:12Strong's last: Joel 3:18
Open full H650 profile →nachal · nakh'-al
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
Strong's KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Strong's first: Leviticus 11:9Strong's last: Micah 6:7
Open full H5158 profile →peleg · peh'-leg
a rill (i.e. small channel of water, as in irrigation)
Strong's KJV usage: river, stream.
Strong's first: Job 29:6Strong's last: Lamentations 3:48
Open full H6388 profile →potamós · pot-am-os'
a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water
Strong's KJV usage: :--flood, river, stream, water.
Strong's first: John 7:38Strong's last: Revelation 16:4
Open full G4215 profile →pᵉlaggâh · pel-ag-gaw'
a runlet, i.e. gully
Strong's KJV usage: division, river.
Strong's first: Job 20:17Strong's last: Job 20:17
Open full H6390 profile →tᵉʻâlâh · teh-aw-law'
a channel (into which water is raised for irrigation); also a bandage or plaster (as placed upon a wound)
Strong's KJV usage: conduit, cured, healing, little river, trench, watercourse.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 31:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 31:4
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Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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RI'VER, noun One who rives or splits.
RIV'ER, noun [Latin rivus, rivulus, rips.]
1. A large stream of water flowing in a channel on land towards the ocean, a lake or another river It is larger than a rivulet or brook; but is applied to any stream from the size of a mill-stream to that of the Danube, Maranon and Mississippi. We give this name to large streams which admit the tide and mingle salt water with fresh, as the rivers Hudson, Delaware and St. Lawrence.
2. A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as rivers of blood; rivers of oil
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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