יְאֹר
ye.or (H2975H)
stream
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# יְאֹר (ye'or): Stream The Hebrew word *ye'or* denotes a stream or watercourse, appearing fifteen times throughout the biblical text. This relatively modest frequency suggests it held a specific rather than universal application in biblical Hebrew vocabulary for water features. The designation "stream" indicates a flowing body of water—distinct from standing water or the sea. The word's limited occurrence (only 15 instances) and its specialized character suggest that biblical writers had other, perhaps more common terms for water features in general, reserving *ye'or* for particular contexts or types of waterways. Without access to the specific passages where it appears, the precise geographic or contextual patterns of its usage remain beyond what the lexical data alone reveals. This term represents the Hebrew lexicon's capacity for semantic precision: rather than employing a single generic word for all water, biblical writers distinguished between different categories of aqueous features. The survival of *ye'or* across fifteen textual instances indicates that whatever phenomenon it described held sufficient importance to warrant its own dedicated terminology in ancient Hebrew usage.
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I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side.
One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these wonders?”
I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.