יְאֹרyᵉʼôr
יְאֹר: stream of the Nile, stream, canal
Pronunciation: yeh-ore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2975
Meanings
1. stream of the Nile, river Nile, usually with article (Genesis 41:1; Genesis 41:2; Genesis 41:3)
2. plural
a. Nile-arms, Nile-canals (Isaiah 7:18; Isaiah 19:6; Isaiah 37:25)
b. watercourses (Isaiah 33:21)
3. shafts, made in mining (Job 28:10)
4. singular, of Tigris (Daniel 12:5; Daniel 12:6; Daniel 12:7)
כָּאֹר: see יְאֹר (Amos 8:8)
Where it appears
Appears 65 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 41:1 Two full years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing on the bank of the Nile River.
- Genesis 41:2 In his dream he saw seven fat, healthy cows come up out of the river and begin grazing in the marsh grass.
- Genesis 41:3 Then he saw seven more cows come up behind them from the Nile, but these were scrawny and thin. These cows stood beside the fat cows on the riverbank.
- Genesis 41:17 So Pharaoh told Joseph his dream. “In my dream,” he said, “I was standing on the bank of the Nile River,
- Genesis 41:18 and I saw seven fat, healthy cows come up out of the river and begin grazing in the marsh grass.
- Exodus 1:22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.”
See every passage
- Genesis 41:1, 41:2, 41:3, 41:17, 41:18
- Exodus 1:22, 2:3, 2:5, 4:9, 7:15, 7:17, 7:18, 7:19, 7:20, 7:21, 7:24, 7:25, 8:3, 8:5, 8:9, 8:11, 17:5
- 2 Kings 19:24
- Job 28:10
- Psalms 78:44
- Isaiah 7:18, 19:6, 19:7, 19:8, 23:3, 23:10, 33:21, 37:25
- Jeremiah 46:7, 46:8
- Ezekiel 29:3, 29:4, 29:5, 29:9, 29:10, 30:12
- Daniel 12:5, 12:6, 12:7
- Amos 8:8, 9:5
- Nahum 3:8
- Zechariah 10:11
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).