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# נָזַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5140

**flow** — used 11 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/1504/5140/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָזַל: vb. flow, trickle, drop, distil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5140/#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 agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: flowing (2); let them flow (2); they flow (2).

## In the verses

[Job 36:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.28/#tree)

אֲשֶֽׁר־יִזְּל֥וּ שְׁחָקִ֑ים יִ֝רְעֲפ֗וּ עֲלֵ֤י ׀ אָדָ֬ם רָֽב׃

*Word for word:* which they.flow \[the\].clouds they.drip on humankind numerous

*JPS 1917:* Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men.

[Song of Songs 4:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.15/#tree)

מַעְיַ֣ן גַּנִּ֔ים בְּאֵ֖ר מַ֣יִם חַיִּ֑ים וְנֹזְלִ֖ים מִן־לְבָנֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* a.spring of.gardens a.well of.water living and flowing from Lebanon

*JPS 1917:* Thou art a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5140.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5140/): 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).