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# יָבָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2988

**watercourse** — used 2 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

watercourse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2988/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָבָל: watercourse, stream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2988/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] watercourse, stream (proposes conduit), as irrigating;—only pl. cstr. יִבְלֵי(־)מָ֑יִם Is 30:25 (‖ פְּלָגִים), 44:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 44:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.4/#tree)

וְצָמְח֖וּ בְּבֵ֣ין חָצִ֑יר כַּעֲרָבִ֖ים עַל־יִבְלֵי־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.spring.up in between herbage like poplars at watercourses of.water

*JPS 1917:* And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

[Isaiah 30:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.25/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ עַל־כָּל־הַ֣ר גָּבֹ֗הַוְעַל֙ כָּל־גִּבְעָ֣ה נִשָּׂאָ֔ה פְּלָגִ֖ים יִבְלֵי־מָ֑יִם בְּיוֹם֙ הֶ֣רֶג רָ֔ב בִּנְפֹ֖ל מִגְדָּלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be on every mountain high and on every hill lifted.up streams watercourses of.water in a.day of.slaughter great when fall towers

*JPS 1917:* And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill streams and watercourses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2988.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2988/): 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).