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Reference: Brook

American

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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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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Hastings

The Heb. words thus rendered are

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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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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,

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