18 occurrences in 12 translations

'Streams' in the Bible

Tell the mountains of Israel to listen as the Lord GOD speaks. This is what the Lord GOD has to say to the mountains, hills, streams, and the valleys: "Look! I'm about to bring my sword against you. I'm going to destroy your high places.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's Judgment

Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God,“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers,[Boastfully] declaring, ‘My Nile is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesPeople Possessing Other Things

I will put hooks in your jawsand make the fish of your streamscling to your scales.I will haul you upfrom the middle of your Nile,and all the fish of your streamswill cling to your scales.

Verse ConceptsThings Stuck TogetherGod Lifting People

I will leave you in the desert,you and all the fish of your streams.You will fall on the open groundand will not be taken awayor gathered for burial.I have given youto the beasts of the earthand the birds of the sky as food.

Verse ConceptsGathering CreaturesAnimals Eating PeopleNo Burialsreuniting

behold (hear this), therefore, I am against you and against your rivers (the Nile, its tributaries), and I will make the land of Egypt a complete waste and a desolation, from [northern] Migdol to [southern] Syene, even as far as the border of Ethiopia (Cush).

Verse ConceptsBoundariesEthiopiaAfricaLand Becoming EmptyPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

I will make the streams dryand sell the land into the hands of evil men.I will bring desolationon the land and everything in itby the hands of foreigners.I, Yahweh, have spoken.

Verse ConceptsdrynessLand Becoming EmptyWaters Drying UpGod Drying Things UpSuffering From ForeignersFamine

The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high; its streams ran round about his plantation, and it sent out its rivulets unto all the trees of the field.

Verse ConceptsWater For PlantsPlants Growing UpGrowing

And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFelling TreesAbandoning ThingsSuffering From ForeignersThings Falling

This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.

Verse ConceptsMourning DeathHarming TreesThe Fact Of Death

"Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: "'You were like a lion among the nations, but you are a monster in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, stir up the water with your feet, and muddy your streams.

Verse ConceptsWhalesCosmic CreaturesLike Creatures

And watered the land with thy flowing, From thy blood -- unto the mountains, And streams are filled from thee.

Verse ConceptsHuman Blood Shed

Then I will make their waters calm, and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord.

Verse ConceptsTransparency

And brought them out from the peoples, And have gathered them from the lands, And brought them unto their own ground, And have fed them on mountains of Israel, By streams, and by all dwellings of the land.

Verse ConceptsGathering IsraelThe Mountains Of Israel

Is it such an insignificant thing to you that you're feeding in good pastures but trampling down the other pastures with your feet? Or that as you're drinking from the clear streams you're muddying the rest with your feet?

Verse ConceptsSocial SelfishnessDrinking WaterResidue

And filled his mountains with his wounded, Thy hills, and thy valleys, and all thy streams, The pierced of the sword fall into them.

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesKilled With The SwordGod KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples

Therefore, O mountains of Israel, Hear a word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah, to mountains, and to hills, To streams, and to valleys, And to wastes that are desolate, And to cities that are forsaken, That have been for a prey, And for a scorn, to the remnant of the nations who are round about.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyCities Under AttackAbandoning ThingsThe Mountains Of Israel

Therefore, prophesy concerning the ground of Israel, And thou hast said to mountains, and to hills, To streams, and to valleys, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I, in My jealousy, and in My fury, I have spoken, Because the shame of nations ye have borne.

Verse ConceptsJealousyInsulting Other People

And it hath come to pass, every living creature that teemeth, whithersoever the streams come, doth live: and there hath been great abundance of fish, for these waters have come thither, and they are healed; and every thing whither the stream cometh hath lived.

Verse ConceptsFishesKingdom Of God, Characteristics OfThe Water Of LifeGod Giving LifeSweetnessRiversLiveFish

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Current (12 instances)
Stream (114 instances)
Streams (93 instances)
Swarm (32 instances)
Watercourse (6 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אפיק 
'aphiyq 
Usage: 19

אשׁד 
'eshed 
Usage: 1

יאר 
Y@`or 
Usage: 65

יבל 
Yabal 
Usage: 2

נהר 
N@har (Aramaic) 
Usage: 15

נהר 
Nahar 
Usage: 119

נזל 
Nazal 
Usage: 16

נחלה נחלה נחל 
Nachal 
Usage: 141

פּלג 
Peleg 
Usage: 10

ποταμός 
Potamos 
Usage: 11

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