Reference: Brook
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See RIVER.
Easton
a torrent. (1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (Isa 15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha. (2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Nu 34:5; Jos 15:4,47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Nu 13:23; 1Ki 17:3). (3.) In Isa 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.
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And they will go up to the valley of Esheol, and will cut off from there a branch and one cluster of grapes, and they will lift upon a rod upon two; and from the pomegranates, and from the figs.
And the boundary turned from Azmon to the torrent of Egypt, and the goings out were the sea.
And it passed through Azmon, and it went out to the torrent of Egypt; and the going forth of the bound was to the sea: this shall be to you the south bound.
Ashdod, her daughters and her enclosures: Gaza, her daughters and her enclosures, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea and the bound:
My brethren dealt faithlessly as a torrent; as a channel of torrents they shall pass away;
For this the abundance made and their wealth upon the torrent of the Arabians shall they lift them up.
Fausets
aphiquw. A torrent sweeping through a mountain gorge, in the poetical books alone. Yeor, the Nile canals, Isa 19:6-8; 23:3,10, but general in Da 12:5-7. Mical, a rivulet (2Sa 17:20). Nachal, the torrent bed, and the torrent itself (Nu 21:12; 1Ki 17:3); the Arabic wady; Indian nullah; Greek cheimarrous.
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And Absalom's servants will come to the woman to her house, and they will say, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? and the woman will say to them, They passed over the brook of waters. And they will seek and not find; and they will turn back to Jerusalem.
And Absalom's servants will come to the woman to her house, and they will say, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? and the woman will say to them, They passed over the brook of waters. And they will seek and not find; and they will turn back to Jerusalem.
They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away.
They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away. The naked places by the river upon the mouth of the river, and everything being sown by the river was dried up, driven away, and nothing of it
The naked places by the river upon the mouth of the river, and everything being sown by the river was dried up, driven away, and nothing of it And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished.
And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished.
On many waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river her produce; and she shall be the emporium of nations.
On many waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river her produce; and she shall be the emporium of nations.
And I Daniel saw, and behold, two others standing, one hence upon the lip of the river, and one thence upon the lip of the river.
And I Daniel saw, and behold, two others standing, one hence upon the lip of the river, and one thence upon the lip of the river. And he will say to the man clothed with linen garments which was above to the waters of the river, Till when the end of the wonders?
And he will say to the man clothed with linen garments which was above to the waters of the river, Till when the end of the wonders? And I shall hear the man clothed with linen garments, who was above to the waters of the river, and he will lift up his right hand and his left to the heavens, and swear by him living forever, that for an appointment of appointments and a half; in the scattering of the hand of the holy people being finished, all these shall be finished.
And I shall hear the man clothed with linen garments, who was above to the waters of the river, and he will lift up his right hand and his left to the heavens, and swear by him living forever, that for an appointment of appointments and a half; in the scattering of the hand of the holy people being finished, all these shall be finished.
Hastings
The Heb. words thus rendered are
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And the sin that ye made, the calf, I took and I shall burn it with fire, and beat it, and grinding small till it was beat small to dust: and I shall cast its dust into the torrent going down from the mount.
And Absalom's servants will come to the woman to her house, and they will say, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? and the woman will say to them, They passed over the brook of waters. And they will seek and not find; and they will turn back to Jerusalem.
To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God.
They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away. The naked places by the river upon the mouth of the river, and everything being sown by the river was dried up, driven away, and nothing of it read more. And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished.
Morish
Four Hebrew words are translated 'brook.'
1. aphiq, Ps 42:1: water held in by banks, translated also 'channel.'
2. yeor, Isa 19:6-8, a river, canal, fosse: applied to the Nile in Ex 1:22, etc.
3. mikal, 2Sa 17:20, a small brook.
4. nachal, Ge 32:23, etc., a mountain torrent often dry in summer, and thus often disappointing, as in Job 6:15. Such are numerous in Palestine. (This is the word in all the passages where 'brook' occurs in the O.T. except those above enumerated.) The same is called in the N.T. ?????????, 'winter flowing.' Joh 18:1. Its Eastern name is wady.
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Andhewill take them and will cause them to pass through the torrent, and he will cause to pass through what is to him.
And Pharaoh will command to all the people, saying, Every son being brought forth ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall preserve alive.
And Absalom's servants will come to the woman to her house, and they will say, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? and the woman will say to them, They passed over the brook of waters. And they will seek and not find; and they will turn back to Jerusalem.
My brethren dealt faithlessly as a torrent; as a channel of torrents they shall pass away;
To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God.
They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away. The naked places by the river upon the mouth of the river, and everything being sown by the river was dried up, driven away, and nothing of it read more. And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished.
Watsons
BROOK is distinguished from a river by its flowing only at particular times; for example, after great rains, or the melting of the snow; whereas a river flows constantly at all seasons. However, this distinction is not always observed in the Scripture; and one is not unfrequently taken for the other,