Hebrew word · H5104
נָהָר
nehar-
river
Appears 119 times in 108 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.
Where it appears
Genesis · 9
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Genesis 2:10 וְנָהָר֙ and a river
Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:
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Genesis 2:13 הַנָּהָ֥ר the river
The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.
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Genesis 2:14 הַנָּהָ֤ר וְהַנָּהָ֥ר the river, and the river
The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
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Genesis 15:18 מִנְּהַ֣ר הַנָּהָ֥ר נְהַר־ from [the] river of, the river, [the] river of
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
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Genesis 31:21 הַנָּהָ֑ר the river
So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
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Genesis 36:37 הַנָּהָֽר׃ the River
When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.
Exodus · 3
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Exodus 7:19 נַהֲרֹתָ֣ם׀ rivers their
And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and all the reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.”
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Exodus 8:5 הַ֨נְּהָרֹ֔ת the rivers
And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”
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Exodus 23:31 הַנָּהָ֑ר the River
And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
Numbers · 2
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Numbers 22:5 הַנָּהָ֛ר the river
he sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt,” said Balak. “They cover the face of the land and have settled next to me.
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Numbers 24:6 נָהָ֑ר a river
They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
Deuteronomy · 4
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Deuteronomy 1:7 הַנָּהָ֥ר נְהַר־ the river, [the] river of
Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.
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Deuteronomy 11:24 הַנָּהָ֣ר נְהַר־ the River, [the] river of
Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
Joshua · 6
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Joshua 1:4 הַנָּהָ֧ר נְהַר־ the river, [the] river of
Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
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Joshua 24:2 הַנָּהָ֗ר the river
And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.
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Joshua 24:3 הַנָּהָ֔ר the river
But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,
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Joshua 24:14 הַנָּהָר֙ the river
Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
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Joshua 24:15 הַנָּהָ֔ר the river
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
2 Samuel · 2
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2 Samuel 8:3 בִּֽנְהַר־פְּרָֽת׃ at [the] river - Euphrates
David also defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, who had marched out to restore his dominion along the Euphrates River.
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2 Samuel 10:16 הַנָּהָ֔ר the River
Hadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
1 Kings · 4
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1 Kings 4:21 הַנָּהָר֙ the River
And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
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1 Kings 4:24 הַנָּהָ֗ר הַנָּהָ֑ר the River
For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates—over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.
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1 Kings 14:15 לַנָּהָ֑ר of the River
For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
2 Kings · 5
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2 Kings 5:12 נַהֲר֣וֹת [the] rivers of
Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
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2 Kings 17:6 נְהַ֥ר [the] river of
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
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2 Kings 18:11 נְהַ֥ר [the] river of
The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
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2 Kings 23:29 נְהַר־ [the] river of
During Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
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2 Kings 24:7 נְהַר־ [the] river of
Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
1 Chronicles · 5
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1 Chronicles 1:48 הַנָּהָֽר׃ the river
When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.
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1 Chronicles 5:9 הַנָּהָ֖ר the river
They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.
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1 Chronicles 5:26 וּנְהַ֣ר and [the] river of
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.
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1 Chronicles 18:3 בִּֽנְהַר־ at [the] river of
As far as Hamath, David also defeated King Hadadezer of Zobah, who had marched out to establish his dominion along the Euphrates River.
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1 Chronicles 19:16 הַנָּהָ֑ר the river
When the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
2 Chronicles · 1
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2 Chronicles 9:26 הַנָּהָר֙ the river
He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
Ezra · 4
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Ezra 8:15 הַנָּהָר֙ the river
Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And when I searched among the people and priests, I found no Levites there.
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Ezra 8:21 הַנָּהָ֣ר the river
And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
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Ezra 8:31 מִנְּהַ֣ר from [the] river of
On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.
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Ezra 8:36 הַנָּהָ֑ר the River
They also delivered the king’s edicts to the royal satraps and governors of the region west of the Euphrates, who proceeded to assist the people and the house of God.
Nehemiah · 3
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Nehemiah 2:7 הַנָּהָ֑ר the River
I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
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Nehemiah 2:9 הַנָּהָ֔ר the River
Then I went to the governors west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.
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Nehemiah 3:7 הַנָּהָֽר׃ ס the River
Next to them, repairs were made by Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, and the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, who were under the authority of the governor of the region west of the Euphrates.
Job · 5
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Job 14:11 וְ֝נָהָ֗ר and a river
As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
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Job 20:17 נַהֲרֵ֥י rivers of
He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
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Job 22:16 נָ֝הָ֗ר a river
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
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Job 28:11 נְהָר֣וֹת rivers
He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
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Job 40:23 נָ֭הָר [the] river
Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.
Psalms · 15
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Psalm 24:2 נְ֝הָר֗וֹת [the] rivers
For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
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Psalm 46:4 נָהָ֗ר a river
There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
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Psalm 66:6 בַּ֭נָּהָר in the river
He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.
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Psalm 72:8 וּ֝מִנָּהָ֗ר and from [the] river
May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
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Psalm 74:15 נַהֲר֥וֹת rivers of
You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
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Psalm 78:16 כַּנְּהָר֣וֹת like <the> rivers
He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
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Psalm 80:11 נָ֝הָ֗ר [the] river
It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.
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Psalm 89:25 וּֽבַנְּהָר֥וֹת and on the rivers
I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.
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Psalm 93:3 נְהָר֨וֹת׀ נְהָר֣וֹת נְהָר֣וֹת rivers
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
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Psalm 98:8 נְהָר֥וֹת rivers
Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy
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Psalm 105:41 נָהָֽר׃ a river
He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
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Psalm 107:33 נְהָר֣וֹת rivers
He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,
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Psalm 137:1 נַהֲר֨וֹת׀ [the] rivers of
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Song of Songs · 1
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Song of Songs 8:7 וּנְהָר֖וֹת and rivers
Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
Isaiah · 21
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Isaiah 7:20 נָהָר֙ <of> [the] River
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
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Isaiah 8:7 הַנָּהָ֗ר the River
the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
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Isaiah 11:15 הַנָּהָ֖ר the River
The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
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Isaiah 18:1 לְנַֽהֲרֵי־ of [the] rivers of
Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,
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Isaiah 18:2 נְהָרִ֖ים rivers
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
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Isaiah 18:7 נְהָרִים֙ rivers
At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
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Isaiah 19:5 וְנָהָ֖ר and a river
The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
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Isaiah 19:6 נְהָר֔וֹת [the] rivers
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
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Isaiah 27:12 הַנָּהָ֖ר the River
In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
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Isaiah 33:21 נְהָרִ֥ים rivers
But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.
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Isaiah 41:18 נְהָר֔וֹת rivers
I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
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Isaiah 42:15 נְהָרוֹת֙ rivers
I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
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Isaiah 43:2 וּבַנְּהָר֖וֹת and in the rivers
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
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Isaiah 43:19 נְהָרֽוֹת׃ rivers
Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
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Isaiah 43:20 נְהָרוֹת֙ rivers
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
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Isaiah 44:27 וְנַהֲרֹתַ֖יִךְ and rivers your
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
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Isaiah 47:2 נְהָרֽוֹת׃ rivers
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
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Isaiah 48:18 כַנָּהָר֙ like <the> river
If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
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Isaiah 50:2 נְהָרוֹת֙ rivers
Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
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Isaiah 59:19 כַנָּהָר֙ like <the> river
So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
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Isaiah 66:12 כְּנָהָ֨ר like a river
For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.
Jeremiah · 6
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Jeremiah 2:18 נָהָֽר׃ [the] River
Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
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Jeremiah 46:2 נְהַר־ [the] river of
concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:
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Jeremiah 46:6 נְהַר־ [the] river of
“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.
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Jeremiah 46:7 כַּנְּהָר֕וֹת like <the> rivers
Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?
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Jeremiah 46:8 וְכַנְּהָר֖וֹת and like <the> rivers
Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
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Jeremiah 46:10 נְהַר־ [the] river of
For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
Ezekiel · 13
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Ezekiel 1:1 נְהַר־ [the] river of
In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.
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Ezekiel 1:3 נְהַר־ [the] river of
the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
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Ezekiel 3:15 נְהַר־ [the] river of
I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.
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Ezekiel 3:23 נְהַר־ [the] river of
So I got up and went out to the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD was present there, like the glory I had seen by the River Kebar, and I fell facedown.
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Ezekiel 10:15 בִּֽנְהַר־ at [the] river of
Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.
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Ezekiel 10:20 בִּֽנְהַר־ at [the] river of
These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the River Kebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.
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Ezekiel 10:22 נְהַר־ [the] river of
Their faces looked like the faces I had seen by the River Kebar. Each creature went straight ahead.
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Ezekiel 31:4 נַהֲרֹתֶ֗יהָ rivers its
The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.
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Ezekiel 31:15 נַהֲרוֹתֶ֔יהָ rivers its
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.
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Ezekiel 32:2 בְּנַהֲרוֹתֶ֗יךָ נַהֲרוֹתָֽם׃ in rivers your, rivers their
“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
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Ezekiel 32:14 וְנַהֲרוֹתָ֖ם and rivers their
Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil,’ declares the Lord GOD.
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Ezekiel 43:3 נְהַר־ [the] river of
The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when He came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the River Kebar. I fell facedown,
Daniel · 1
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Daniel 10:4 הַנָּהָ֛ר the river
On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,
Jonah · 1
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Jonah 2:3 וְנָהָ֖ר and a river
For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
Micah · 1
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Micah 7:12 נָהָ֔ר [the] River
On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
Nahum · 2
Habakkuk · 3
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Habakkuk 3:8 הֲבִנְהָרִים֙ בַּנְּהָרִים֙ ¿ on rivers, on the rivers
Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?
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Habakkuk 3:9 נְהָר֖וֹת rivers
You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.
Zephaniah · 1
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Zephaniah 3:10 לְנַֽהֲרֵי־ of [the] rivers of
From beyond the rivers of Cush My worshipers, My scattered people, will bring Me an offering.
Zechariah · 1
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Zechariah 9:10 וּמִנָּהָ֖ר and from [the] river
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
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