afik · channel, stream bed

What it means

afik (אָפִיק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “channel, stream bed”.

A channel: the bed in which the water of a stream or of the sea runs. Also a torrent, or something strong and firm.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The bottom along which a brook or the sea runs.
2. What is hard and resistant, like a shield or a mighty warrior.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• watercourses ×7
• channels ×5
• streambeds ×2
• are tubes ×1
• like the channel ×1
• rows ×1
• streams ×1
• strong ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×3
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×7
• Joel×2

• 2 Samuel 22:16

  The channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare at the rebuke of YHWH, at the breath of the wind of his nostrils.

• Job 6:15

  My brothers have acted treacherously like a stream, like the channel of streams that pass away,

• Job 12:21

  He pours contempt on nobles, and loosens the belt of the strong.

• Job 40:18

  Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like a bar of iron.

• Job 41:15

  Its pride is its rows of shields, shut up with a seal tight.

• Psalms 18:15

  The channels of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, YHWH, at the breath of the wind of your nostrils.

• Psalms 42:1

  For the director. A maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer longs for channels of water, so my soul longs for you, Elohim.

• Psalms 126:4

  Bring back, YHWH, our captivity, like the streambeds in the Negev.

• Song of Songs 5:12

  His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathing in milk, sitting beside the abundance.

• Isaiah 8:7

  therefore, look, Adonai is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks;

• Ezekiel 6:3

  and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai YHWH! Thus says Adonai YHWH to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Look, I myself am bringing upon you a sword, and I will destroy your high places.

• Ezekiel 31:12

  And strangers cut it down, the fearsome ones of the nations, and left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell, and its foliage was broken in all the watercourses of the earth; and all the peoples of the earth came down from its shade and left it.

• Ezekiel 32:6

  And I will water the land with your flow, with your blood, to the mountains, and the watercourses will be filled with you.

• Ezekiel 34:13

  And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the lands, and bring them to their ground; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses and in all the inhabited places of the land.

• Ezekiel 35:8

  And I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses those slain by the sword will fall in them.

• Ezekiel 36:4

  therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai YHWH: Thus says Adonai YHWH to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, and to the desolate ruins and to the abandoned cities that have become booty and mockery to the rest of the nations that are all around,

• Ezekiel 36:6

  Therefore prophesy concerning the ground of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I, in my jealousy and in my fury, have spoken, because the disgrace of the nations you have borne.

• Joel 1:20

  Even the livestock of the field long for you, for the channels of water have dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

• Joel 3:18

  And it will happen on that day that the mountains will drip sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah will run with water; and a spring will go out from the house of YHWH and water the wadi of the Acacias.