נָגַרnâgar
pour, flow, run
Pronunciation: naw-gar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5064
Meanings
Niph`al
1. be poured, spilt (2 Samuel 14:14)
2. pour oneself, flow, trickle (Lamentations 3:49)
3. vanish (Job 20:28)
4. be stretched out (?) (Psalms 77:3)
Hiph`il: pour down, hurl down (Micah 1:6; Psalms 75:9; Ezekiel 35:5)
Hoph`al: in simile, of mountains melting at theophany (Micah 1:4)
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 14:14 All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him.
- Job 20:28 A flood will sweep away their house. God’s anger will descend on them in torrents.
- Psalms 63:10 They will die by the sword and become the food of jackals.
- Psalms 75:8 For the Lord holds a cup in his hand that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours out the wine in judgment, and all the wicked must drink it, draining it to the dregs.
- Psalms 77:2 When I was in deep trouble, I searched for the Lord. All night long I prayed, with hands lifted toward heaven, but my soul was not comforted.
- Jeremiah 18:21 So let their children starve! Let them die by the sword! Let their wives become childless widows. Let their old men die in a plague, and let their young men be killed in battle!
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).