Nahar נָהָר

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Nahar
נָהָר
Transliterationnahar
Strong's numberH5104 (H5104H, H5104G)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossriver
Occurrences119 in 108 verses
Most frequent inIsaiah (21)

Nahar (Hebrew נָהָר, Strong's H5104) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “river”. It occurs 119 times in 108 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H5104H: river

1) stream, river
1a) stream, river
1b) (underground) streams
Aramaic equivalent: ne.har (נְהַר "river" H5103H)

H5104G: River

This name means stream, river
Another name of pe.rat (פְּרָת "Euphrates" H6578)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVriver (67), rivers (31), floods (10), flood (8), streams (2), river's side (1)
BSBriver (32), euphrates (24), rivers (19), streams (4), canal (3), like rivers (3), flood (2), waters (2), like a river (2), their rivers (1), stream (1), there is a river (1), and 14 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Nahar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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