יוּבַל
yûwbal · H3105 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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stream
Exact meaning unknown; probably: stream of flowing water; associated with well-being
ExamplesJeremiah 17:8 “For he will be like a tree planted by the water That extends its roots by a stream, And does not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought, Nor cease to yield fruit.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- נָהָר nâhâr · H5104 · stream, river, the River
- Common Hebrew word for river (e.g., Euphrates, Nile); both יוּבַל and נָהָר denote flowing watercourses, though נָהָר is far more frequent and typically refers to major rivers
- נַחַל nachal · H5158 · stream, torrent, wadi
- Hebrew term for a watercourse, though נַחַל typically denotes a seasonal stream or wadi that may dry up, whereas יוּבַל may suggest a more perennial flow
In the other Testament 1 word
- ποταμός potamós · G4215 · river, stream
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew יוּבַל 'river'; both refer to a flowing watercourse or stream
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Waterbodies001002008
- יוּבַל denotes a stream or watercourse, used of the channel along which a well-rooted tree draws moisture even in drought (Jeremiah 17:8).
- Names of People003001007
- This entry carries no independent personal-name sense of its own; its one tagged occurrence is the common noun for a stream: “For he will be like a tree planted by the water that extends its roots by a stream” (Jeremiah 17:8). The “Names of People” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme יוּבַל (Yûwbal, H3106) rather than independently attested here.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3105. yubal I. יוּבַל noun [masculine] stream, Jer 17:8 (|| מַיִם).
I. יוּבַל noun [masculine] stream, Jer 17:8 (|| מַיִם).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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