18 occurrences in 13 translations

'River' in the Bible

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

Therefore they carry [the] abundance it has made and their store of goods over the river of the poplars.

Like fluttering birds, like an abandoned nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

The reeds by the Nile, by the mouth of the river,and all the cultivated areas of the Nilewill wither, blow away, and vanish.

The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water's surface will grieve.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon):As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through,So it (God’s judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.

And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.

His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one's neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.

Blessed (happy, fortunate) are you who cast your seed upon all waters [when the river overflows its banks and irrigates the land],You who allow the ox and the donkey to roam freely.

The land mourns and dries out,Lebanon is shamed and [its lush foliage] withers;Sharon is like a desert plain,And Bashan and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.

For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
נהר 
Nahar 
Usage: 119

אבל אוּבל 
'uwbal 
Usage: 3

אפיק 
'aphiyq 
Usage: 19

יאר 
Y@`or 
Usage: 65

יוּבל 
Yuwbal 
Usage: 1

נהר 
N@har (Aramaic) 
Usage: 15

נחלה נחלה נחל 
Nachal 
Usage: 141

פּלג 
Peleg 
Usage: 10

פּלגּה 
P@laggah 
Usage: 1

תּעלה 
T@`alah 
Usage: 11

ποταμός 
Potamos 
Usage: 11

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