יְאֹר

ye.orNile
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place65 occurrences12 books48 verses
This is the name of the place Nile: The major river of Egypt, mentioned in various contexts.

Definition

of Egyptian origin; a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria
Traditional renderings: brook, flood, river, stream.

Glossary entries

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Where it occurs

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Occurrences

65 total
  1. Ezekiel 29:4יְאֹרֶ֔יךָ · of your streams
    But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.
  2. Ezekiel 29:5יְאֹרֶ֔יךָ · of your streams
    I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
  3. Ezekiel 29:9יְאֹ֥ר · The Nile [is]
    The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
  4. Ezekiel 29:10יְאֹרֶ֑יךָ · your rivers
    …therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
  5. Ezekiel 30:12יְאֹרִים֙ · the streams
    I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  6. Daniel 12:5 (2×)הַיְאֹ֔ר · of the river; הַיְאֹֽר׃
    Then I, Daniel, looked and saw two others standing there, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.
  7. Daniel 12:6הַיְאֹ֑ר · of the river
    One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”
  8. Daniel 12:7הַיְאֹר֒ · of the river
    And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
  9. Amos 8:8 (2×)כָאֹר֙ · like the Nile; כִּיא֥וֹר · like the Nile
    Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
  10. Amos 9:5 (2×)כַיְאֹר֙ · like the Nile; כִּיאֹ֥ר · like the river
    The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
  11. Nahum 3:8בַּיְאֹרִ֔ים · by the Nile
    Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
  12. Zechariah 10:11יְאֹ֑ר · of the Nile
    They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.