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# נָזַל

Biblical Hebrew

**flow** — used 5 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/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d6_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָזַל: vb. flow, trickle, drop, distil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d6_5b7_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flow, trickle, drop, distil (poet.) (𝔗 נְזַל of flowing water; Syriac ܢܙܠ descendit, defluet PS2331; Arabic نَزَلَ descend (milk into udder, but also in gen.));— Pf. נָֽזְלוּ Ju 5:5; Impf. יִזַּל Nu 24:7, etc.; Pt. נֹזְלִים Ex 15:8 +, etc.;— flow, subj. water, Nu 24:7 (JE); ψ 147:18; cf. Je 18:14; subj. clouds, Jb 36:28 sq. rain as acc. mat. Ges§ 117 z (‖ רעף and, v 27, זקק), cf. Je 9:17 (of eyelids); so fig. Is 45:8 sq. צֶדֶק (‖ רעף); of mts. (i.e. their torrents) Ju 5:5 according to 𝔙 Ew GFM al., but v. I. זלל; especially pt. as subst., = streams, floods, Ex 15:8 (‖ מים, תהום of Red Sea); ψ 78:44 (‖ יְאֹר); for drinking ψ 78:16 (‖ מים כַנהרות, תהום v 15), Pr 5:15 out of well (‖ מים); for irrigation Is 44:3 (‖ מים); fig. of Shulammite נ׳ מִן־לְבָנוֹן Ct 4:15 (‖ מעין גנים, באר מים). distil, of spices בְּשָׂמִים Ct 4:16; fig. of words, like dew Dt 32:2 (‖ ערף). Pf. הִזִּיל Is 48:21 cause to flow, water from rock (‖ זוב).—Vid. also I. זלל.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: streams (5).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.16/#tree)

וַיּוֹצִ֣א נוֹזְלִ֣ים מִסָּ֑לַע וַיּ֖וֹרֶד כַּנְּהָר֣וֹת מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought.out streams from a.rock and he.made.to.flow.down like (the) rivers water

*JPS 1917:* He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

[Proverbs 5:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.15/#tree)

שְׁתֵה־מַ֥יִם מִבּוֹרֶ֑ךָ וְ֝נֹזְלִ֗ים מִתּ֥וֹךְ בְּאֵרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* drink water from your.own cistern and streams from the.midst your.own.well your

*JPS 1917:* Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d6_5b7_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d6_5b7_5dc/): 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).