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אָפִיק

ʼâphîyq · H650 · Hebrew · 19 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. wadi, watercourse

    River bed that contains water in the rainy season only; considered as deceptive as one never can never be entirely sure as to whether they contain water or not

    Examples

    Job 6:15 “My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi, Like the torrents of wadis which drain away,

    Psalm 42:1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, God.

    Psalm 126:4 Restore our fortunes, LORD, As the streams in the South.

  2. Bottom of a body of water (bed (of river or sea))

    Examples

    2 Samuel 22:16 “Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were exposed By the rebuke of the LORD, From the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

    Psalm 18:15 Then the channels of water appeared, And the foundations of the world were exposed By Your rebuke, LORD, At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

  3. bar, tube

    Exact meaning unsure; probably: long, slender object

    Examples

    Job 40:18 “His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.

  4. row

    Exact meaning unsure; probably: quantity of objects arranged in a straight line

    Examples

    Job 41:15 “His strong scales are his pride, Locked as with a tight seal.

  5. Person with military and/or political strength (strong (person), mighty (person))

    Examples

    Job 12:21 “He pours contempt on nobles, And loosens the belt of the strong.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

12 occurrences in 9 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

5 occurrences in 4 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

10 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 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.

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.

Semantic domains 4 entries
Waterbodies001002008
אָפִיק names a channel or streambed, as the channels of the sea exposed by the LORD's rebuke.
Land001002002
The word can also describe a dry ravine or wadi, a channel that drains away when the rains cease.
Shape002001001052
It carries a sense of a defined, hollowed-out form, the shape a channel or watercourse takes in the land.
People001001003
The word is also used of a strong or mighty man, likened to a channel's force, as strong people whose belt is loosed.
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָסַף ʼâçaph · H622 · to gather, to be assembled, to assemble · 200×אָפִיקʼâphîyq · H650אָסֻף ʼâçuph · H624 · storeroom, storehouse · 3×אֹסֶף ʼôçeph · H625 · ingathering, harvest · 3×אָסִיף ʼâçîyph · H614 · ingathering, harvest · 2×אֲסֵפָה ʼăçêphâh · H626 · gathering · 1×אֲסֻפָּה ʼăçuppâh · H627 · collection · 1×אֲסְפְּסֻף ʼăçpᵉçuph · H628 · rabble, riffraff · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H650. aphiq [אָפִיק] noun masculine2Sa 22:16 channel (as holding, confining waters; in…
H650. aphiq
[אָפִיק] noun masculine2Sa 22:16 channel (as holding, confining waters; in poetry) — constructאֲפִיק Job 6:15; pluralאֲפִיקִים Eze 6:3 +; אֲפִקִים Eze 32:6; construct אֲפִיקֵי Joe 1:20 +; suffix אֲפִיקֶיךָ Eze 35:8; אֲפִיקָיו Isa 8:7 — channel = stream-bed, ravine, wady ׳א מַיִם Psa 42:2; Joe 1:20; compare Joel 4:18; Son 5:12; also Psa 18:16, but better ׳א יָם 2Sa 22:16; ׳א נְחָלִים Job 6:15; of river-bed Isa 8:7; so also (without defining word) Eze 31:12; Eze 32:6; Eze 34:13; Psa 126:4; || גַּיְא Eze 6:3; Eze 35:8; Eze 36:4, Eze 36:6; figurative of bones of hippopotamus (as hollow) ׳א נְחֻשָׁה Job 40:18; of furrows between scales of crocodile ׳א מָגִּנִּים Job 41:7 — אֲפִיקִים מְזִיהַ Job 12:21 is dubious; read perhaps אַבִּירִים Du (see also Bu). Thes MV Di and others say girdle of the strong (אָפִיק = firm forceful, or — Di — capable, powerful); || נְדָבִים.

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

Topical studies with this word 4 entries
People1 occurrenceLand2 occurrencesWaterbodies14 occurrencesShape2 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

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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