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נָזַל

nâzal · H5140 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to flow, to waft

    Poetic term; process by which liquids or odors move from one place to another

    Examples

    Numbers 24:7 “Water will flow from his buckets, And his seed will be by many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.

    Isaiah 48:21 They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts. He made the water flow out of the rock for them; He split the rock and the water gushed out.

    Deuteronomy 32:2 “May my teaching drip as the rain, My speech trickle as the dew, As droplets on the fresh grass, And as the showers on the vegetation.

  2. stream, flood

    Poetic term; a body of flowing water

    Examples

    Exodus 15:8 “At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

    Psalm 78:16 He brought forth streams from the rock And made waters run down like rivers.

    Psalm 78:44 And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

10 occurrences in 8 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 6 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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 1 word
נָסַךְ nâçak · H5258 · to pour out
Both words denote actions of liquid flowing and pouring.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Flow002002001008
נָזַל denotes flowing or gushing, used of water flowing from a rock (Isaiah 48:21) and honey flowing from the rock in poetic imagery (Deuteronomy 32:13, Job 29:6), tying the word to liquid in motion.
Waterbodies001002008
The word's dominant use for flowing water ties it naturally to the domain of water sources and streams as the substance most often described by this verb.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5140. nazal [נָזַל] verb flow, trickle, drop, distil (poetry) (נְזַל ᵑ7 of flowing…
H5140. nazal
[נָזַל] verb flow, trickle, drop, distil (poetry) (נְזַל ᵑ7 of flowing water; Syriac descendit, defluet PS2331; Arabic descend (.milk into udder, but also in General)); —
Qal Perfect נָָֽזְלוּ Jdg 5:5; Imperfect יִזַּל Num 24:7 etc; Participle נֹזְלִיםExo 15:8 +, etc.; —
1 flow subject water, Num 24:7 (JE); Psa 147:18; compare Jer 18:14; subject clouds, Job 36:28 followed by rain as accusative of material Ges§ 117z (|| רעף and, Job 36:27, זקק), compare Jer 9:17 (of eyelids); so .fig. Isa 45:8 followed by צֶדֶק (|| רעף); of mountains (i.e. their torrents) Jdg 5:6 according to ᵑ9 Ew GFM and others, but see I. זלל especially participle as substantive, = streams, floods, Exo 15:8 (|| תהום מים, of Red Sea); Psa 78:44 (|| יְאֹר); for drinking Psa 78:16 (|| תהום כַנהרות, מים Psa 78:15), Pro 5:15 out of well (|| מים); for irrigation Isa 44:3 (|| מים); figurative of Shulamite ׳נ מִןלְֿבָנוֺן Son 4:15 (|| מים באר גנים, מעין)
2 distil, of spices בְּשָׂמִים Son 4:16; figurative of words, like dew Deu 32:2 (|| ערף).
Hiph`il Perfect lyZIhi Isa 48:21 cause to flow, water from rock (|| זוב). — See also I. זלל.
נזם (√ of following; meaning unknown).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Waterbodies6 occurrencesFlow9 occurrences

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

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