נָהָר
stream
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 53 times (45%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 29 times (24%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 24 times (20%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 13 times (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 119 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5104 appears — 108 distinct verses across 25 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 6 verses
- Genesis 2:10 וְ/נָהָרּ֙ conj + n c ms A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
- Genesis 2:13 הַ/נָּהָ֥ר ptcl def.art + n c ms The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
- Genesis 2:14 הַ/נָּהָ֤ר וְ/הַ/נָּהָ֥ר ptcl def.art + n c ms conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
- Genesis 15:18 מִ/נְּהַ֣ר הַ/נָּהָ֥ר נְהַר prep + n c ms cs ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms cs In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Genesis 31:21 הַ/נָּהָ֑ר ptcl def.art + n c ms So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
- Genesis 36:37 הַ/נָּהָֽר ptcl def.art + n c ms Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.
Exodus 3 verses
- Exodus 7:19 נַהֲרֹתָ֣/ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
- Exodus 8:5 הַ֨/נְּהָרֹ֔ת ptcl def.art + n c mp Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"
- Exodus 23:31 הַ/נָּהָ֑ר ptcl def.art + n c ms I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 22:5 הַ/נָּהָ֛ר ptcl def.art + n c ms He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.
- Numbers 24:6 נָהָ֑ר n c ms As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Yahweh has planted, As cedar trees beside the waters.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:7 הַ/נָּהָ֥ר נְהַר ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms cs turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and to all [the places] near thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
- Deuteronomy 11:24 הַ/נָּהָ֣ר נְהַר ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms cs Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.
Joshua 5 verses
- Joshua 1:4 הַ/נָּהָ֧ר נְהַר ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms cs From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
- Joshua 24:2 הַ/נָּהָ֗ר ptcl def.art + n c ms Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
- Joshua 24:3 הַ/נָּהָ֔ר ptcl def.art + n c ms I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
- Joshua 24:14 הַ/נָּהָר֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve you Yahweh.
- Joshua 24:15 הַ/נָּהָ֔ר ptcl def.art + n c ms If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.
2 Samuel 2 verses
- 2 Samuel 8:3 בִּֽ/נְהַר prep + n c ms cs David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
- 2 Samuel 10:16 הַ/נָּהָ֔ר ptcl def.art + n c ms Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
1 Kings 3 verses
- 1 Kings 4:21 הַ/נָּהָר֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
- 1 Kings 4:24 הַ/נָּהָ֗ר הַ/נָּהָ֑ר ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
- 1 Kings 14:15 לַ/נָּהָ֑ר prep det + n c ms For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.
2 Kings 5 verses
- 2 Kings 5:12 נַהֲר֣וֹת n c mp cs Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
- 2 Kings 17:6 נְהַ֥ר n c ms cs In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2 Kings 18:11 נְהַ֥ר n c ms cs The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
- 2 Kings 23:29 נְהַר n c ms cs In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and [Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
- 2 Kings 24:7 נְהַר n c ms cs The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
1 Chronicles 5 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:48 הַ/נָּהָֽר ptcl def.art + n c ms Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.
- 1 Chronicles 5:9 הַ/נָּהָ֖ר ptcl def.art + n c ms and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 5:26 וּ/נְהַ֣ר conj + n c ms cs The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
- 1 Chronicles 18:3 בִּֽ/נְהַר prep + n c ms cs David struck Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
- 1 Chronicles 19:16 הַ/נָּהָ֑ר ptcl def.art + n c ms When the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezra 4 verses
- Ezra 8:15 הַ/נָּהָר֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
- Ezra 8:21 הַ/נָּהָ֣ר ptcl def.art + n c ms Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
- Ezra 8:31 מִ/נְּהַ֣ר prep + n c ms cs Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
- Ezra 8:36 הַ/נָּהָ֑ר ptcl def.art + n c ms They delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and the house of God.
Nehemiah 3 verses
- Nehemiah 2:7 הַ/נָּהָ֑ר ptcl def.art + n c ms Moreover I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;
- Nehemiah 2:9 הַ/נָּהָ֔ר ptcl def.art + n c ms Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
- Nehemiah 3:7 הַ/נָּהָֽר ptcl def.art + n c ms Next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, [that appertained] to the throne of the governor beyond the River.
Job 5 verses
- Job 14:11 וְ֝/נָהָ֗ר conj + n c ms As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wastes and dries up,
- Job 20:17 נַהֲרֵ֥י n c mp cs He shall not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
- Job 22:16 נָ֝הָ֗ר n c ms Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
- Job 28:11 נְהָר֣וֹת n c mp He binds the streams that they don't trickle; The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
- Job 40:23 נָ֭הָר n c ms Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
Psalms 13 verses
- Psalms 24:2 נְ֝הָר֗וֹת n c mp For he has founded it on the seas, And established it on the floods.
- Psalms 46:4 נָהָ֗ר n c ms There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, The holy place of the tents of the Most High.
- Psalms 66:6 בַּ֭/נָּהָר prep det + n c ms He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.
- Psalms 72:8 וּ֝/מִ/נָּהָ֗ר conj + prep + n c ms He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, From the River to the ends of the earth.
- Psalms 74:15 נַהֲר֥וֹת n c mp cs You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
- Psalms 78:16 כַּ/נְּהָר֣וֹת prep det + n c mp He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
- Psalms 80:11 נָ֝הָ֗ר n c ms It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
- Psalms 89:25 וּֽ/בַ/נְּהָר֥וֹת conj + prep det + n c mp I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.
- Psalms 93:3 נְהָר֨וֹת נְהָר֣וֹת נְהָר֣וֹת n c mp n c mp n c mp The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
- Psalms 98:8 נְהָר֥וֹת n c mp Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
- Psalms 105:41 נָהָֽר n c ms He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
- Psalms 107:33 נְהָר֣וֹת n c mp He turns rivers into a desert, Water springs into a thirsty ground,
- Psalms 137:1 נַהֲר֨וֹת n c mp cs By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 21 verses
- Isaiah 7:20 נָהָר֙ n c ms In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
- Isaiah 8:7 הַ/נָּהָ֗ר ptcl def.art + n c ms now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;
- Isaiah 11:15 הַ/נָּהָ֖ר ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will strike it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.
- Isaiah 18:1 לְ/נַֽהֲרֵי prep + n c mp cs Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
- Isaiah 18:2 נְהָרִ֖ים n c mp that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, [saying], Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!
- Isaiah 18:7 נְהָרִים֙ n c mp In that time shall a present be brought to Yahweh of Hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.
- Isaiah 19:5 וְ/נָהָ֖ר conj + n c ms The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
- Isaiah 19:6 נְהָר֔וֹת n c mp The rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.
- Isaiah 27:12 הַ/נָּהָ֖ר ptcl def.art + n c ms It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel.
- Isaiah 33:21 נְהָרִ֥ים n c mp But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
- Isaiah 41:18 נְהָר֔וֹת n c mp I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
- Isaiah 42:15 נְהָרוֹת֙ n c mp I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
- Isaiah 43:2 וּ/בַ/נְּהָר֖וֹת conj + prep det + n c mp When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle on you.
- Isaiah 43:19 נְהָרֽוֹת n c mp Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
- Isaiah 43:20 נְהָרוֹת֙ n c mp The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
- Isaiah 44:27 וְ/נַהֲרֹתַ֖יִ/ךְ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2fs who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;
- Isaiah 47:2 נְהָרֽוֹת n c mp Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
- Isaiah 48:18 כַ/נָּהָר֙ prep det + n c ms Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
- Isaiah 50:2 נְהָרוֹת֙ n c mp Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
- Isaiah 59:19 כַ/נָּהָר֙ prep det + n c ms So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
- Isaiah 66:12 כְּ/נָהָ֨ר prep + n c ms For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you shall suck [of it]; you shall be borne on the side, and shall be dandled on the knees.
Jeremiah 6 verses
- Jeremiah 2:18 נָהָֽר n c ms Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
- Jeremiah 46:2 נְהַר n c ms cs Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
- Jeremiah 46:6 נְהַר n c ms cs Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
- Jeremiah 46:7 כַּ/נְּהָר֕וֹת prep det + n c mp Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
- Jeremiah 46:8 וְ/כַ/נְּהָר֖וֹת conj + prep det + n c mp Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it.
- Jeremiah 46:10 נְהַר n c ms cs For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Ezekiel 12 verses
- Ezekiel 1:1 נְהַר n c ms cs Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 1:3 נְהַר n c ms cs the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.
- Ezekiel 3:15 נְהַר n c ms cs Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
- Ezekiel 3:23 נְהַר n c ms cs Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
- Ezekiel 10:15 בִּֽ/נְהַר prep + n c ms cs The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
- Ezekiel 10:20 בִּֽ/נְהַר prep + n c ms cs This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
- Ezekiel 10:22 נְהַר n c ms cs As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
- Ezekiel 31:4 נַהֲרֹתֶ֗י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
- Ezekiel 31:15 נַהֲרוֹתֶ֔י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers of it; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
- Ezekiel 32:2 בְּ/נַהֲרוֹתֶ֗י/ךָ נַהֲרוֹתָֽ/ם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
- Ezekiel 32:14 וְ/נַהֲרוֹתָ֖/ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 43:3 נְהַר n c ms cs It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Daniel 1 verse
Jonah 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
Nahum 2 verses
Habakkuk 2 verses
- Habakkuk 3:8 הֲ/בִ/נְהָרִים֙ בַּ/נְּהָרִים֙ ptcl inter + prep + n c mp prep det + n c mp Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, Or your wrath against the sea, That you rode on your horses, On your chariots of salvation?
- Habakkuk 3:9 נְהָר֖וֹת n c mp You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.
Zephaniah 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun נהר centers on the idea of “stream.” Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 2:10. It turns up in 108 verses across 25 books, a common footprint. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. It shares a root with נהר, מנהרה and נהר. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
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About this word
Strong's H5104 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 108
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 108 distinct verses.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #363
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 363 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 108 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 108 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 62 verses · 57%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 33 verses · 31%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 13 verses · 12%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: River 60×, Rivers 24×, Floods 8×
- American Standard Version: River 63×, Rivers 24×, Floods 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: River 32×, Euphrates 24×, Rivers 24×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: River 53×, Rivers 19×, The 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5104 across 119 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5104 across 118 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5104 across 114 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5104 across 132 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. stream, river, Nu 24:6 (JE), Jb 14:11; 40:23 ψ 105:41 (in sim.), Is 48:18 (id.), 59:19 (id.) + often; freq. of partic. rivers; r. of Eden Gn 2:10 and its branches v 13, 14 (all J); נְהַר מִצְרַיִם 15:18 (J; i.e., si vera l., the Nile) but read prob. נַחַל מ׳, whence נהר through infl. of foll. נהר—cf. 2 K 24:7—NöZMG xl. 1886, 699 (alternat.), LagBN 140 BallHpt; נָהָר of Nile Is 19:5; especially of Euphrates נְהַר פְּרָת Gn 15:18; Dt 1:7 (both + הַנּ׳ הַגָּדוֹל) Jos 1:4 + 8 times + 2 S 8:3 (Qr 𝔊 and ‖ 1 Ch 18:3; Kt om. פְּרָת;—cf. also Gn 2:14b supr.); oftener (of Euphr.) without פ׳: הַנָּהָר κατʼ ἐξοχήν, Gn 31:21 Ex 23:31 Nu 22:5; Jos 24:2, 3, 14, 15 (all E), poss. also Gn 36:37 (P; cf. Di) = 1 Ch 1:48, + 13 times + 2 S 8:3 Kt (v. supr.); and even without art. (poet.) † Is 7:20; Je 2:18 Mi 7:12; Zc 9:10; ψ 72:8; הַנּ׳ הַגּ׳ once of Tigris †Dn 10:4; †נְהַר גוֹזָן (חבור) 2 K 17:6; 18:11 cf. 1 Ch 5:26; pl. נַהֲרֵי כוּשׁ Zp 3:10; perhaps of a canal: נְהַר־כְּבָר Ez 1:1, 3 + 6 times Ez; הַנָּהָר אַהֲוָא Ezr 8:21, נְהַר א׳ v 31; cf. נַהֲרוֹת בָּבֶל ψ 137:1; canals poss. also in שַׁעֲרֵי הַנּ׳ Na 2:7 (of Nineveh); of canals of Egypt Ex 7:19 (‖ יְאֹרִים etc.), 8:1 (‖ id.). e.g. Numbers 24:6
- 2. נְהָרוֹת (מִבְּכִי) Jb 28:11 usually understood of (underground) streams; SzoldComm. Jb GrMonatsschr. 1887, 410 and PerlesAnalekten. 69 proposes נִבְכֵי נ׳ sources of rivers (cf. 36:16); Wetzst Hoffm Bu מַבְּכֵי נ׳ (not elsewhere) with similar meaning. e.g. Job 28:11
- 3. fig. of י׳s favour ψ 46:5.—On נַהֲרַיִם ending appar. du., v. אֲרַם; Tel Am. Na-ri-ma, Naḫrima (WklTelAm.40), and Egyptian Nhrina (WMMAs. u. Eur. 249 ff.) point however to orig. ending ִים; this inconsistent with view of EMeyGesch. § 180 that ַיִם here a locative ending (cf. Ba§ c. Anm. 1 BuhlGes 12), v. also Di Gn 24:10. e.g. Psalms 46:5
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Gn 2:10 stream, river;—abs. נ׳ Gn 2:10 +; cstr. נְהַר Dt 1:7 +; pl. נְהָרִים Is 18:7 + 4 times, cstr. נַהֲרֵי Is 18:1 + 2 times; but oftener נְהָר(וֹ)ת Is 19:6 + 23 times; cstr. נַהֲרוֹת 2 K 5:12 + 2 times; sf. נַהֲרוֹתֶיךָ Ez 32:2, נַהֲרֹתַיִךְ Is 44:27, נַהֲרֹתֶיהָ Ez 31:4, 15, נַהֲרֹתָם Ex 7:19, נַהֲרוֹתָם Ez 32:2, 14; appar. du. נַהֲרַיִם Gn 24:10 + 2 times, נַהֲרָ֑יִם Ju 3:8 (v. infr.) (all in אֲרַם נ׳);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נהר (nâhar) (H5102) — to shine.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נָהַר
- v. נוּר) to break forth, shine (v. אוֹר I).
- to enlighten. Erub. 13ᵇ; Sabb. 147ᵇ שמַנְהִיר וכ׳, he enlightened the eyes &c., v. נְהוֹרַאי.
נְהַר I
- , to shine. Targ. O. Gen. XLIV, 3 (Y. נְהִיר). Targ. Job XVIII, 5; a. fr.—Taan. 10ᵃ נְהוּר ענני וכ׳ when the clouds are bright, their waters are little. Pesik. Ekha, p. 123ᵃ יִנְהוֹר דינא וכ׳ let justice shine before thee like this lamp; Yalk. Is. 258 יִנְהַר דיני וכ׳ let my case shine &c.; Sabb. 116ᵇ נְהוֹר נהורך וכ׳ let thy light (wisdom) shine (prob. to be read: ינהור); a. fr.—Part. pass. נְהִיר; f. נְהִירָא; pl. נְהִירִין; נְהִירָן a) bright, clear. Lev. R. s. 19 אולפני מה נ׳ באפי how my learning shines on my face (makes me look well); Yalk. Prov. 964 נרי באפוי (corr. acc.). Y. Sabb. VIII, beg. 11ᵃ (נהירן) אפוי נהירין his looks were bright.—Ber. 58ᵇ נ׳ לי שבילי וכ׳ the paths of the heavens (the courses of the heavenly bodies) are as clear (well-known) to me as the streets &c.; a. fr.—b) knowing clearly, remembering. Y. Taan. I, 64ᵃ bot. נ׳ את כד הוינן וכ׳ dost thou remember when we were standing &c.?; Y. Meg. III, 74ᵇ bot. Y. Keth. V, 30ᵃ top נ׳ דהויתון וכ׳ (insert את) dost thou remember that thou &c.? Y. Orl. II, 62ᶜ top [read:] נ׳ את דאמריתון את וכ׳ dost thou remember that you, thyself and R. J., said &c. Y. Naz. V, end, 54ᵇ נ׳ הוינין וכ׳ we remember that an old man was here &c.; Y. Ber. VIII, 11ᵇ bot. נ׳ אנן; Gen. R. s. 91 נהרין אנן (corr. acc.); Koh. R. to VII, 11. Ḥull. 54ᵃ ולא נְהִירַת ליה וכ׳ dost thou not remember (recognize) that student &c.? Ib. 93ᵃ נְהִירְנָא I remember. B. Bath. 91ᵇ; a. fr.—[R. Hash. 34ᵇ כי נהירנא לך, v. נְחַר].
- , Pa. נַהֵר
- 1. to give light, shine; to illumine, brighten, make shine. Targ. O. Gen. I, 15 (Y. למְנַהֲרָא). Targ. Num. VI, 25; a. fr.—Y. Yoma III, beg. 40ᵇ א׳ מְנַהֲרָא, v. בְּרַק I; Y. R. Hash. II, beg. 57ᵈ. Y. Taan. III, 66ᵈ bot. שמענן … והיא מְנַהֲרָה we hear that when he entered the Temple court, it used to shine; עאל ואַנְהָרַת he entered, and it shone. Cant. R. to V, 11 הוה מנהרא לי וכ׳ it (the Law) brightened my countenance by night. Sot. 6ᵃ וא׳ לן עיינין וכ׳ and he enlightened our eyes (by evidence) from our Mishnah; a. fr.
- 2. to recall to memory, remember. Y. Peah III, 17ᵈ bot. וא׳ ר׳ אימי וכ׳ whereupon R. I. recalled (that he had heard the same tradition), and rescinded his decision. Y. Kidd. I, 61ᵃ bot. א׳ ונפיק וכ׳ it struck him (that he had forgotten to hear his grandson’s lesson), and he left the bath house &c.; a. e.—Part. pass. מְנַהַר; pl. מְנַהֲרִין. Gen. R. s. 33 אתון … מְנַהֲרִין אנא מְנַהַר ליה you do not remember that poor man, I will remember him.
- 1. to be brightened, enlightened. Targ. Y. Gen. III, 7. Targ. Ps. XXXIV, 6.
- 2. to come forth. Cant. R. to IV, 1 טורא דאִתְנַהַרְתּוּן וכ׳, v. גָּלַשׁ.
נָהָר
- v. נָהַר) river, stream, canal. Ex. R. s. 15 נְהַר אש, נ׳ של אש a river of fire (v. דִּינוּר). Gen. R. s. 16 עד מקום שהנ׳ מהלך וכ׳ as far as the river (Euphrates) goes, goes the border of the land of Israel. Shebi. VI, 1 מכזיב ועד הנ׳ from Kezib to the river (N’har Mitsrayim); a. fr.—Pl. נְהָרִים, נְהָרוֹת. Gen. R. l. c. (ref. to Gen. II, 10) והיה לארבעה נ׳ אין וכ׳ it does not say, ‘and it divided into four rivers’ but ‘into four heads’. Ib. אוותנטין של נ׳, v. אֶוְותַּנְטִי. Bekh. 55ᵃ כל הנ׳ למטה וכ׳ all other rivers are lower than the three (mentioned Gen. II, 11, sq.), and these three are lower than the Euphrates; a. fr.—נְהַר in pr. n. of rivers, e. g. נ׳ פקוד, v. respective determinants. e.g. Genesis 2:10
נְהַר II
- Targ. Jon. II, 4. Targ. Gen. II, 10; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 16 אעברת נ׳ בְּנֵה build (me a house) on the (western) banks of the river. Gitt. 60ᵇ קא מתקיל לנַהֲרִין he spoils our portion of the canal. Ib. נ׳ כפשטיה ליזיל let the canal run its natural course (and those above have no right to dam it before those below have used it for irrigation). Ḥull. 18ᵇ (prov.) נ׳ נ׳ ופשטיה every river has its own course, i.e. each place has its own usages; ib. 57ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. נַהֲרִין, נַהֲרַיָּא. Targ. Gen. l. c. Targ. Ex. VIII, 1.—Y. Sabb. VII, 9ᵃ top, a. e., v. בְּדִי I; a. fr.—Fem. forms: נַהַרְוָן, נַהַרְוָתָא, נַהַרְוָו׳. Targ. Is. XLIII, 19. Targ. Ps. XXIV, 2; a. e.—Taan. 25ᵃ תליסרי נ׳ וכ׳ thirteen rivers of balsam oil; a. e.—נְהַר in pr. n. of canals or places, e. g. נ׳ אבא N’har Abba, Sabb. 140ᵇ; v. respective determinants (v. Berl. Beitr. Geogr. p. 47).
פַּפָּא II
- N’har Pappa, name of a canal and of a place in Babylonia. B. Mets. 86ᵃ Yoma 77ᵇ (Ms. O. פקוד; Ar. a. Ms. Alf. פרת, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 8).—Denom. f. pl. (נְהַר) פַּפְיָתָא belonging to N. P. Erub. 82ᵇ תרתי ריפתא נ׳ פ׳ (Ms. M. פַּפְיָאתָא; ed. Sonc. ריפתאה פפיתאה, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) two loaves of the size baked in N. P.
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Forms in the corpus
The 66 distinct written forms H5104 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 6 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5104, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 96 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 108 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:10
- Exodus 7:19
- Numbers 22:5
- Deuteronomy 1:7
- Joshua 1:4
- 2 Samuel 8:3
- 2 Kings 5:12
- 1 Chronicles 5:9
- 2 Chronicles 9:26
- Ezra 8:15
- Job 14:11
- Psalms 24:2
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
