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# נָהַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5102

**flow** — 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

flow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5102/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָהַר: vb. flow, stream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5102/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flow, stream (Arabic نَهَرَ, run, flow; perhaps denom. from نَهْرٌ river, and this loan-wd. (cf. Frä285); Assyrian nâru, stream, river, DlHWB 440; Aramaic ܢܰܗܪܳܐ נַהֲרָא river);— Pf. 3 pl. consec. וְנָֽהֲרוּ Is 2:2 + 2 times; Impf. 3 mpl. יִנְהֲרוּ Je 51:44;—flow, stream, only fig.: of restored Isr. streaming אֶל־טוּב י׳ עַל־דָּגָן וגו׳ Je 31:12; nations to (אֶל־) Bel 51:44; to temple-hill at Jerus. Is 2:2 (אֵלָיו) = Mi 4:1 (עָלָיו).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they will stream (3).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.44/#tree)

וּפָקַדְתִּ֨י עַל־בֵּ֜ל בְּבָבֶ֗ל וְהֹצֵאתִ֤י אֶת־בִּלְעוֹ֙ מִפִּ֔יו וְלֹֽא־יִנְהֲר֥וּ אֵלָ֛יו ע֖וֹד גּוֹיִ֑ם גַּם־חוֹמַ֥ת בָּבֶ֖ל נָפָֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.visit.\[judgment\] on Bel in Babylon and I.will.bring.out (et) thing his.swallowed from mouth his and not they.will.stream to him again nations also the.wall of.Babylon it.will.fall

*JPS 1917:* And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up, and the nations shall not flow any more unto him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

[Micah 4:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.4.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.4.1/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בְּאַחֲרִ֣ית הַיָּמִ֗ים יִ֠הְיֶה הַ֣ר בֵּית־יְהוָ֤ה נָכוֹן֙ בְּרֹ֣אשׁ הֶהָרִ֔ים וְנִשָּׂ֥א ה֖וּא מִגְּבָע֑וֹת וְנָהֲר֥וּ עָלָ֖יו עַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be at the.end of the.days it.will.be the.mountain of.the.house of.Yahweh established (in).the chief of the.mountains and \[will.be\].lifted.up it more than.\[the\].hills and they.will.stream to it peoples

*JPS 1917:* But in the end of days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established as the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow unto it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5102.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5102/): 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).