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# יְאֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2975

**stream of the Nile** — used 65 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 of the Nile [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2975/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** Am 8:8 v. יְאֹר.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: River (27); the River (15); canals (9).

## In the verses

[Exodus 7:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.7.25/#tree)

וַיִּמָּלֵ֖א שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים אַחֲרֵ֥י הַכּוֹת־יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־הַיְאֹֽר׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was.completed seven days after struck Yahweh (et) the River

*JPS 1917:* And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.

[Job 28:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.10/#tree)

בַּ֭צּוּרוֹת יְאֹרִ֣ים בִּקֵּ֑עַ וְכָל־יְ֝קָ֗ר רָאֲתָ֥ה עֵינֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* in the rocks shafts he.splits.open and every precious.thing it.sees eye his

*JPS 1917:* He cutteth out channels among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2975.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2975/): 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).