'Streams' in the Bible

"'These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.

But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.

From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a place of flowing streams.

Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, "Go down and head off the Midianites. Take control of the fords of the streams all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River." When all the Ephraimites had assembled, they took control of the fords all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

The caravans of Tema looked intently for these streams; the traveling merchants of Sheba hoped for them.

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!

Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.

He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!

You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile with overflowing streams full of water. You provide grain for them, for you prepare the earth to yield its crops.

He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.

Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?"

He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.

He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

O Lord, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished.

Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.

His eyes are like doves by streams of water, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

At that time the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

The Lord will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

Instead the Lord will rule there as our mighty king. Rivers and wide streams will flow through it; no war galley will enter; no large ships will sail through.

Edom's streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

Then the lame will leap like a deer, the mute tongue will shout for joy; for water will flow in the desert, streams in the wilderness.

I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.

When you pass through the waters, I am with you; when you pass through the streams, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not harm you.

The wild animals of the desert honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the desert and streams in the wilderness, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,

For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children.

Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!

Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.

you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.

They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel's father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.'"

"Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?

Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt says, 'I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.'

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

"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.

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

I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land.

Will the Lord accept a thousand rams, or ten thousand streams of olive oil? Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion, my offspring -- my own flesh and blood -- for my sin?