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Lexicon :: Strong's H2975 - yᵊ'ōr

Aa
יְאֹר
Transliteration
yᵊ'ōr
Pronunciation
yeh-ore'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Egyptian origin
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 832

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: יאר (Strongs and Gesenius) יאור (Gesenius)

Strong’s Definitions

יְאֹר yᵉʼôr, yeh-ore'; of Egyptian origin; a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria:—brook, flood, river, stream.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x

The KJV translates Strong's H2975 in the following manner: river (53x), brooks (5x), flood (5x), streams (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x
The KJV translates Strong's H2975 in the following manner: river (53x), brooks (5x), flood (5x), streams (1x).

  1. river, stream, canal, Nile, Nile-canal

    1. stream, river (Nile)

    2. Nile-arms, Nile-canals

    3. watercourses

    4. shafts (mining)

    5. river (in general)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יְאֹר yᵉʼôr, yeh-ore'; of Egyptian origin; a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria:—brook, flood, river, stream.
STRONGS H2975: Abbreviations
† יְאֹר, יְאוֺר noun masculineExodus 7:21 stream of the Nile, stream, canal (Egyptian loan-word = Egyptian ’iotr, ’io’r, watercourse, Coptic eioor, ior; also ’iotr‘o, ’io’r‘o, Coptic eiero, iaro, Nile, SteindBAs i. 612; in Assyrian ia’uru, stream, ’Iaru’û, river Nile, Idib., Hptib. 171 Jägerib 466) — absolute הַיְאֹר Genesis 41:1 + 37 times; הַיְאוֺר Isaiah 19:8; הַיְאֹ֫רָה Exodus 1:22; יְאוֺר Isaiah 19:7 (3 times in verse) + 2 times; כָּאֹר (err. for כַּיְאֹר) Amos 8:8; construct כִּיאֹר Amos 9:5; כִּיאוֺר Amos 8:8; suffix יְאֹרִי Ezekiel 29:3b (Co יאר, compare Ezekiel 29:9 and Syriac Version Targum); plural יְאֹרִים Exodus 8:1 + 4 times; construct יְאֹרֵי Isaiah 7:18 + 2 times; יְאוֺרֵי 2 Kings 19:24; suffix יְאֹרֶיךָ Ezekiel 29:4 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 29:5 + Ezekiel 29:4 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co) + Ezekiel 29:10 (Co יְאֹרְךָ); יְאֹרָיו Ezekiel 29:3; יְאֹדֵיהֶם Exodus 7:19; Psalm 78:44; —
1. stream of the Nile, river Nile, usually with article Genesis 41:1, 2, 3 (twice in verse); Genesis 41:18; Exodus 1:22; Exodus 2:3, 5 (twice in verse); Exodus 4:9 (twice in verse); Exodus 7:15, 17, 18 (3 times in verse); Exodus 7:20 (twice in verse); Exodus 7:21 (3 times in verse); Exodus 7:24 (twice in verse); Exodus 7:28; Exodus 8:5; Exodus 8:7; Exodus 17:5 (all J E), Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5; Isaiah 19:7 (3 times in verse); Isaiah 19:8; Isaiah 23:3 (|| שִׁחֹר), Isaiah 23:10; Jeremiah 46:7, 8 (simile of Egyptian invasion), Ezekiel 29:3b (read יאר, see above), Ezekiel 29:9; Zechariah 10:11; more fully יְאֹר מִצְרַיִם Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5.
2. plural:
a. Nile-arms, Nile-canals, יְאֹרֵי מִצְרַים Isaiah 7:18; יְאֹרֵי מָצוֺר Isaiah 19:6 (|| נְהָרוֺת), Isaiah 37:25 = 2 Kings 19:24; see also Nahum 3:8; Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:1 (both P; || נְהָרֹת, אֲגַמִּים, etc.), Psalm 78:44 (|| נֹזְלִים), Ezekiel 29:3, 4 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 29:5, 10 + Ezekiel 29:4 MT (but strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co), Ezekiel 30:12.
b. watercourses in general, יְאֹרִים רַחֲבֵי יָדָ֑יִם Isaiah 33:21 (|| נְהָרִים; compare Late Hebrew יְאוֺר, late Aramaic יְאוֺרָא).
3. shafts, made in mining Job 28:10 (בַּצּוּרוֺת).
4. יְאֹר, singular, of Tigris, Daniel 12:5 (twice in verse); Daniel 12:6, 7 (compare Daniel 10:4).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

41:1; 41:1; 41:2; 41:3; 41:18

Exodus

1:22; 1:22; 2:3; 2:5; 4:9; 7:15; 7:17; 7:18; 7:19; 7:19; 7:20; 7:21; 7:21; 7:24; 8:1; 8:1; 8:5; 8:7; 17:5

2 Kings

19:24; 19:24

Job

28:10

Psalms

78:44; 78:44

Isaiah

7:18; 7:18; 19:6; 19:7; 19:7; 19:8; 19:8; 23:3; 23:10; 33:21; 37:25

Jeremiah

46:7; 46:8

Ezekiel

29:3; 29:3; 29:3; 29:3; 29:4; 29:4; 29:4; 29:4; 29:5; 29:5; 29:9; 29:9; 29:10; 29:10; 30:12

Daniel

10:4; 12:5; 12:6; 12:7

Amos

8:8; 8:8; 8:8; 8:8; 9:5; 9:5; 9:5

Nahum

3:8

Zechariah

10:11

H2975

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Strong's Number H2975 matches the Hebrew יְאֹר (yᵊ'ōr),
which occurs 65 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1 - Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the water, you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile, with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17 - So the Lord says, By this you may be certain that I am the Lord; see, by the touch of this rod in my hand the waters of the Nile will be turned to blood;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the river will send up a bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be able, for disgust, to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20 - And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - And the fish in the Nile came to destruction, and a bad smell went up from the river, and the Egyptians were not able to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking; and there was blood through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to get drinking-water, for they were not able to make use of the Nile water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:25 - And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - And Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying when I am to make prayer for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs may be sent away from you and your houses, and be only in the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:24 - I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 - He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44 - So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:18 - And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:6 - And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:7 - The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:8 - The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:3 - Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:10 - Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:21 - But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:7 - Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 - Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3 - Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4 - And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:12 - And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give the land into the hands of evil men, causing the land and everything in it to be wasted by the hands of men from a strange country: I the Lord have said it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:5 - Then I, Daniel, looking, saw two others, one at the edge of the river on this side and one at the edge of the river on that side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:6 - And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the waters of the river, How long will it be to the end of these wonders?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:7 - Then in my hearing the man clothed in linen, who was over the river, lifting up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, took an oath by him who is living for ever that it would be a time, times, and a half; and when the power of the crusher of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be ended.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 - Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5 - For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will go down again like the River of Egypt;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:8 - Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken away.
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