114 occurrences in 13 translations

'Stream' in the Bible

Instead, an underground stream would arise out of the earth and water the surface of the ground.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodMistThe EarthTaking Care Of The Earth

He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.

Then Jacob crossed over [the stream] ahead of them and bowed himself to the ground seven times [bowing and moving forward each time], until he approached his brother.

Verse ConceptsBowingSevenSalutationsSeven TimesIn Front

And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.

They stretch out like river valleys,like gardens beside a stream,like aloes the Lord has planted,like cedars beside the water.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalSpreadingGardens

He will pour water from his buckets, and his descendants will stream forth like abundant water. His king will be more exalted than Agag when he exalts his own kingdom.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialBucketsGod Providing WaterSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.

Get up now, and go over the stream Zered. So we went over the stream Zered.

Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.

Verse ConceptsGenerations30 To 40 YearsDeath As Punishment

I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous Things

The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterDislocatingUnused

All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken.

Verse ConceptsDislocating

It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt, and ended at the sea. This was their southern border.

Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt and the border at the Mediterranean Sea.

And the limit goes down to the stream Kanah, to the south of the stream: these towns were Ephraim's among the towns of Manasseh; Manasseh's limit was on the north side of the stream, ending at the sea:

And their limit goes up to the west to Maralah, stretching to Dabbesheth, and to the stream in front of Jokneam;

He took his staff in his hand, picked out five smooth stones from the stream, placed them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag, took his sling in hand, and approached the Philistine.

Verse ConceptsBagsequipping, physicalSlingsSmall Things God UsesFive ThingsThrowing StonesSlinging Stones

So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.

Verse ConceptsSix To Seven HundredSix Hundred And Above

And David, with four hundred men, went on: but two hundred of them were overcome with weariness, and not able to go across the stream.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Two HundredFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredTired In Pursuittired

And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

Verse ConceptsGreetingsThe Number Two HundredTired In Pursuit

When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman replied to them, "They crossed over the stream." Absalom's men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFindingRiver CrossingsNot FindingGroups going homeWhere Are People?Those Looking For People

After the men had left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed out of the well. Then they left and informed King David. They advised David, "Get up and cross the stream quickly, for Ahithophel has devised a plan to catch you."

Verse ConceptsFordsTelling Of Happenings

For be certain that on the day when you go out and go over the stream Kidron, death will overtake you: and your blood will be on your head.

Verse ConceptsRiver Crossings

And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsGrandparentsQueensDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous ThingsDeposingServing AsherahGrandmothersgrandmas

Go from here in the direction of the east, and keep yourself in a secret place by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDivine DirectionHiding From PeopleBeyond JordanBrooks

Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there."

Verse ConceptsRavensBirds, Types Of BirdsDivine DirectionDrinking WaterBrooks

So he went and did as the Lord said, living by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToFrugalityBeyond JordanBrooks

After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Verse Conceptsdrynessdrought, physicalRivers And StreamsWaters Drying UpBrooks

And Elijah saith to them, 'Catch ye the prophets of Baal; let not a man escape of them;' and they catch them, and Elijah bringeth them down unto the stream Kishon, and doth slaughter them there.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTRivers And StreamsKilling ProphetsRiver KishonProphets Of Other GodsBrooks

Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field.

Verse ConceptsCommanderLargenessOccupationsSiegesActual Attacks On JerusalemWater ChannelLarge Armies

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

Verse ConceptsPoolsDrinking WaterHistorical BooksWater ChannelKings of judahaccomplishmentsaccomplishment

And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

Verse ConceptsTombsBurning Idolatrous Things

And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

Verse ConceptsRoofValleysBuilding AltarsUpper RoomsCourts Of The Temple

And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

Verse ConceptsAs Far As The Euphrates

And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

Verse ConceptsGrandparentsQueensDestruction Of Satan's WorksGrandmothersgrandmas

And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to make it clean, and everything unclean which was to be seen in the Temple of the Lord they took out into the outer square of the Lord's house, and the Levites got it together and took it away to the stream Kidron.

And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's Works

Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land; they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

Verse ConceptsAbundance, Materialreinforcement

Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesDuring One Night

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

But then the snow melts, and they disappear; when warmed, they evaporate from their stream beds.

Verse ConceptsSummerWaters Drying UpHot Weather

Should this stream of words go unansweredand such a talker be acquitted?

Verse ConceptsWorldly WisdomVain TalkToo Many Words

Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Verse ConceptsChaosThe DelugeEarly Death

A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

Verse ConceptsFeetSwinging

so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

Verse ConceptsRocksPeople In Caves

The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

Verse ConceptsWillows

They are filled from the abundance of Your house;You let them drink from Your refreshing stream,

Verse ConceptsAbundance, SpiritualPlenty Through GodAbundancehomecoming

Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.

Verse ConceptsdrynessRivers And StreamsGod Providing WaterGod Drying Things Up

Do to them as to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the stream Kishon.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsRiver Kishon

He opened a rock, and water gushed out;it flowed like a stream in the desert.

Verse ConceptsThirstGod Providing WaterProvision From Rocks

He will drink from a stream on the way, then hold his head high.

Verse ConceptsThe Water Of LifeBrooksrelaxing

Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law.

Verse ConceptsCryingWeepingSheddingBreaking God's Law

Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Effects OfCommendationSpeech, Power And Significance OfSpeech, Positive Aspects OfValuing Knowledge

The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.

Verse ConceptsMind, The HumanRighteous, TheSpeech, Positive Aspects OfThoughts Of The RighteousThinkingAnsweringToo Many Words

A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.

Verse ConceptsWitnesses, False

Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

Verse ConceptsEnvyJealousyAble To StandPassionBeing Overwhelmedwrath

A fountain in the gardens, A well of living waters, Which stream from Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsGardens

In the last daysthe mountain of the Lord’s house will be establishedat the top of the mountainsand will be raised above the hills.All nations will stream to it,

Verse ConceptsDays, LastThe Final Days Of TimeNames And Titles For The ChurchRevelation Of The FutureThe Temple In HeavenJerusalem In Millennial Kingdomend times prophecyEnd Of DaysEnd Times

Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;

Verse ConceptsOccupationsProphets, Lives OfPoolsMeeting PeopleClean ClothesWater ChannelHighways

And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that [is] at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsFliesBeesInsectsWhistlingflying

For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.

And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

Verse ConceptsReedsSmellsCanalsNature DecayingBrooks

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.

Verse ConceptsThreshingGathering IsraelAs Far As The Euphrates

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Verse ConceptsBridlesdrossHorsesSiftingSievingBinding As AnimalsLike A Flood

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Verse ConceptsPitsTheophanyBrimstonePreparation For BurialSulphurA Place Prepared

How happy you will be, sowing your seed beside every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range freely!"

Verse ConceptsCowsPlanting SeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's

Verse ConceptsCommanderOccupationsPoolsClean ClothesWater Channel

"Shout, you skies above, and you clouds, and let righteousness stream down. I am the one who says to the earth, "Let salvation blossom, and let righteousness sprout forth.'

Verse Conceptsdrought, spiritualRainWeather, As God's JudgmentOpening HeavenCreationFreedomChange And GrowthSolar EclipseSpilling Your Seed On The Groundcloudswaterfallsrevival

Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

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.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceKneelingPeace, Promised ToKneesJerusalem In Millennial KingdomRiversHealing And ComfortPeace And ComfortPeace And StrengthFloodsBlessings And ProsperityWealth And Prosperitybreasts

If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightFountainsEyes, Figurative UseBeing Earnest For IsraelNightSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfTearsMetaphorical SpringsMourning DeathFountains Used Figuratively

I said, "Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.

Verse ConceptsShedding

He will be like a tree planted by water:it sends its roots out toward a stream,it doesn’t fear when heat comes,and its foliage remains green.It will not worry in a year of droughtor cease producing fruit.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenSpring Of WaterUnfading LifeThe Source Of FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsHot WeatherGreenWater, As A Symbol Of LifeRiversOlive TreesAnxiety And FearWorrying

And all the valley of the dead bodies, and all the field of death as far as the stream Kidron, up to the angle of the horses' doorway to the east, will be holy to the Lord; it will not again be uprooted or overturned for ever.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesHoly LandJerusalem In Millennial Kingdom

'Thus said Jehovah: Lo, waters are coming up from the north, And have been for an overflowing stream, And they overflow the land and its fulness, The city, and the inhabitants in it, And men have cried out, And howled hath every inhabitant of the land.

Verse ConceptsOut Of The NorthLike A FloodFloods

Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to {a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream}. So {I will chase him away hurriedly} from it. And whoever [is] chosen I will appoint over it. For who [is] like me, and who can summon me? And who [is] this, [the] shepherd who can stand {before me}?"

Verse ConceptsChallengesShepherds, As Kings And LeadersInadequate ShepherdingGod Like A LionWho Is Like God?The Region Of JordanLeadership Qualities

Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan against {a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream}, so {I will chase them away quickly} from her, and I will appoint whoever [is] chosen over her. For who [is] like me, and who can summon me, and who [is] this shepherd who can stand {before me}?

Verse ConceptsChallengesShepherds, As Kings And LeadersInadequate ShepherdingGod Like A LionWho Is Like God?The Region Of Jordan

I will punish Bel in Babylon.I will make him vomit what he swallowed.The nations will no longer stream to him;even Babylon’s wall will fall.

Verse ConceptsBabylonBabylon, History OfFortificationsFalse GodsThe judgment of babylon

Bitterly she cries in the night, as tears stream down her cheeks. No one consoles her of all her friends. All her neighbors have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Verse ConceptsCheeksBetrayalNightFeelings Of Rejection By GodWeepingAfflictions, Consolation DuringHanding Over PeopleFriends FailingNo ComfortPeople Mourning Catastrophe

Because of all this, I weep; my eyes stream with tears because far from me is the comforter of my soul. My children are sorrowful, because the enemy has won.

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenPeace, Human Destruction OfSympathyRestoring SinnersI Mourn CatastropheNo Comfort

Cried hath their heart unto the Lord; O wall of the daughter of Zion, Cause to go down as a stream tears daily and nightly, Give not rest to thyself, Let not the daughter of thine eye stand still.

Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightWeepingCrying To GodFigurative WallsEyes Cared ForNo Comfort

And he measureth a thousand -- a stream that I am not able to pass over; for risen have the waters -- waters to swim in -- a stream that is not passed over.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialSwimmingDepthingMeasuring Jerusalem And The Land

And he saith unto me, 'Hast thou seen, son of man?' and he leadeth me, and bringeth me back unto the edge of the stream.

Verse ConceptsRiver BanksLooking And Seeing

In my turning back, then, lo, at the edge of the stream are very many trees, on this side and on that side.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical TreesTwo Sidedrelaxing

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

And by the stream there cometh up on its edge, on this side and on that side, every kind of fruit-tree whose leaf fadeth not, and not consumed is its fruit, according to its months it yieldeth first-fruits, because its waters from the sanctuary are coming forth; and its fruits hath been for food, and its leaf for medicine.

Verse ConceptsFruitNew ThingsdiseasesHealingMedicineAbundance, MaterialUnfading LifeIncreasing FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsFoliageMetaphorical TreesFood DefinedGod HealsPlans For A New TempleHealing Of NationsHerbsHealth And HealingDrugs

And the south quarter southward is from Tamar unto the waters of Meriboth-Kadesh, the stream unto the great sea: and this is the south quarter southward.

Verse ConceptsSouthern Border

and by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border hath been from Tamar to the waters of Meriboth-Kadesh, the stream by the great sea.

Verse ConceptsMediterranean SeaSouthern Border

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

Verse ConceptsAngels RejoicingBooks, Metaphorical UseMany Spiritual BeingsServants Of The LordA Million And MoreThe Act Of OpeningOpening DocumentsFire Emanating From GodCourt SessionsThousands Of Angels Worship God

And I see in a vision, and it cometh to pass, in my seeing, and I am in Shushan the palace that is in Elam the province, and I see in a vision, and I have been by the stream Ulai.

Verse ConceptsCitadelsRivers And StreamsCanals

And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain ram is standing before the stream, and it hath two horns, and the two horns are high; and the one is higher than the other, and the high one is coming up last.

Verse ConceptsRamsLong ThingsHorns In AllegoryTwo Of Body Parts

And it cometh unto the ram possessing the two horns, that I had seen standing before the stream, and runneth unto it in the fury of its power.

Verse ConceptsUnnamed People Angry With OthersThe Nations Attacked

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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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