H5158: נַחַל
nachal · pronounced nakh'-al · “torrent: river”
Definition
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
KJV translates it as: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Word origin: or (feminine) נַחְלָה; (Psalm 124:4), or נַחֲלָה; (Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:28), from H5157 (נָחַל) in its original sense;
Extended definition
1) torrent, valley, wadi, torrent-valley
1a) torrent
1b) torrent-valley, wadi (as stream bed)
1c) shaft (of mine)
Also means: na.chal (נַ֫חַל ": valley" H5158N)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H5158 is translated
- the wadi of ×53
- wadi ×30
- wadis ×12
- a wadi ×6
- torrents of ×6
- the wadi ×5
- river ×5
- a torrent ×4
- towards ×3
- the wadis of ×3
- torrents ×2
- rivers ×2
Bible verses with H5158 (nachal)
Nachal appears in 123 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 26:17
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
- Genesis 26:19
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- Genesis 32:23
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
- Leviticus 11:9
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
- Leviticus 11:10
And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
- Leviticus 23:40
And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
- Numbers 13:23
And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
- Numbers 13:24
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- Numbers 21:12
From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
- Numbers 21:14
Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
- Numbers 21:15
And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
- Numbers 24:6
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
- Numbers 32:9
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them.
- Numbers 34:5
And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
- Deuteronomy 1:24
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
- Deuteronomy 2:13
Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
- Deuteronomy 2:14
And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.
- Deuteronomy 2:24
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
- Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:
- Deuteronomy 2:37
Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbad us.
- Deuteronomy 3:8
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
- Deuteronomy 3:12
And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
- Deuteronomy 3:16
And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
- Deuteronomy 4:48
From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
- Deuteronomy 8:7
For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
All 123 references
- Deuteronomy 9:21
- Deuteronomy 10:7
- Deuteronomy 21:4
- Deuteronomy 21:6
- Joshua 12:1
- Joshua 12:2
- Joshua 13:9
- Joshua 13:16
- Joshua 15:4
- Joshua 15:7
- Joshua 15:47
- Joshua 16:8
- Joshua 17:9
- Joshua 19:11
- Judges 4:7
- Judges 4:13
- Judges 5:21
- Judges 16:4
- 1 Samuel 15:5
- 1 Samuel 17:40
- 1 Samuel 30:9
- 1 Samuel 30:10
- 1 Samuel 30:21
- 2 Samuel 15:23
- 2 Samuel 17:13
- 2 Samuel 22:5
- 2 Samuel 23:30
- 2 Samuel 24:5
- 1 Kings 2:37
- 1 Kings 8:65
- 1 Kings 15:13
- 1 Kings 17:3
- 1 Kings 17:4
- 1 Kings 17:5
- 1 Kings 17:6
- 1 Kings 17:7
- 1 Kings 18:5
- 1 Kings 18:40
- 2 Kings 3:16
- 2 Kings 3:17
- 2 Kings 10:33
- 2 Kings 23:6
- 2 Kings 23:12
- 2 Kings 24:7
- 1 Chronicles 11:32
- 2 Chronicles 7:8
- 2 Chronicles 15:16
- 2 Chronicles 20:16
- 2 Chronicles 29:16
- 2 Chronicles 30:14
- 2 Chronicles 32:4
- 2 Chronicles 33:14
- Nehemiah 2:15
- Job 6:15
- Job 20:17
- Job 21:33
- Job 22:24
- Job 28:4
- Job 30:6
- Job 40:22
- Psalms 18:4
- Psalms 36:8
- Psalms 74:15
- Psalms 78:20
- Psalms 83:9
- Psalms 104:10
- Psalms 110:7
- Psalms 124:4
- Proverbs 18:4
- Proverbs 30:17
- Ecclesiastes 1:7
- Song of Solomon 6:11
- Isaiah 7:19
- Isaiah 11:15
- Isaiah 15:7
- Isaiah 27:12
- Isaiah 30:28
- Isaiah 30:33
- Isaiah 34:9
- Isaiah 35:6
- Isaiah 57:5
- Isaiah 57:6
- Isaiah 66:12
- Jeremiah 31:9
- Jeremiah 31:40
- Jeremiah 47:2
- Lamentations 2:18
- Ezekiel 47:5
- Ezekiel 47:6
- Ezekiel 47:7
- Ezekiel 47:9
- Ezekiel 47:12
- Ezekiel 47:19
- Ezekiel 48:28
- Joel 3:18
- Amos 5:24
- Amos 6:14
- Micah 6:7