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# אֻבָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H180

**stream** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

stream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/180/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוּבָל: stream, river [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/180/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] stream, river (= יוּבַל)—only הָאֻבָל Dn 8:3, 6 אוּבַל אוּלָ֑י 8:2 the river Ulai.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: canal (2); the canal (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 8:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.6/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֗א עַד־הָאַ֙יִל֙ בַּ֣עַל הַקְּרָנַ֔יִם אֲשֶׁ֣ר רָאִ֔יתִי עֹמֵ֖ד לִפְנֵ֣י הָאֻבָ֑ל וַיָּ֥רָץ אֵלָ֖יו בַּחֲמַ֥ת כֹּחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.came to the ram the.possessor of the.two.horns which I.had.seen standing before the canal and it.ran against it in the.rage its.strength his

*JPS 1917:* And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the stream, and ran at him in the fury of his power.

[Daniel 8:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.2/#tree)

וָֽאֶרְאֶה֮ בֶּחָזוֹן֒ וַיְהִי֙ בִּרְאֹתִ֔י וַאֲנִי֙ בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּעֵילָ֣ם הַמְּדִינָ֑ה וָאֶרְאֶה֙ בֶּֽחָז֔וֹן וַאֲנִ֥י הָיִ֖יתִי עַל־אוּבַ֥ל אוּלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and I.saw in the vision and it.was when saw I and I \[was\].in Susa the citadel which \[is\].in Elam the province and I.saw in the vision and I I.was at the.canal of.Ulai

*JPS 1917:* And I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the castle, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the stream Ulai.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/180.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/180/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).