Strong H515810 sensesנַ֫חַל

torrent: river · torrent: valley · Brook · (Eshcol) Valley · palm-tree · (Shittim) Valley …

Transliteration
nachal nachlâh nachălâh
Pronunciation
{nakh'-al} {nakh'-law} nakh-al-aw'

The 10 senses of Strong H5158

The lexicon tells 10 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H5158 appears in 123 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. torrent: riverH5158A: river/bed61 verses · 21 books
  2. torrent: valleyH5158N: valley/gorge46 verses · 16 books
  3. BrookH5158Lthe boundary wadi named in Numbers 34:5; Joshua 15:4, 47; 1 Kings 8:65; 2 Kings 24:7; 2 Chronicles 7:8; and Isaiah 27:12.7 verses · 6 books
  4. (Eshcol) ValleyH5158HValley where Israelite spies obtained a large cluster of grapes4 verses · Numbers, Deuteronomy
  5. BrookH5158Mthe boundary wadi referred to simply as “the brook” in Ezekiel 47:19 and 48:28.2 verses · Ezekiel
  6. palm-treeH5158B1 verse · Numbers
  7. BrookH5158GBoundary of Moab's territory1 verse · Isaiah
  8. (Shittim) ValleyH5158IValley mentioned in Joel's prophecy1 verse · Joel
  9. (Sorek) ValleyH5158JValley where Delilah lived, Samson's downfall occurred1 verse · Judges
  10. BrookH5158KEastern boundary of Jeroboam II's kingdom1 verse · Amos

General definition

From H5157 in its original sense; a {stream} especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine): - {brook} {flood} {river} {stream} valley.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • brook43
  • river43
  • valley22
  • stream11
  • flood5

First verses

  1. Genesis 26:17
    And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
  2. Genesis 26:19
    And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
  3. Genesis 32:23
    And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
  4. 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.
  5. 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:
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Numbers 21:12
    From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
  10. 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,
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Deuteronomy 1:24
    And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
  16. Deuteronomy 2:13
    Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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:
  20. 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.