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נַחַל

nachal · valley, torrent

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5158 · appears 141 times in the Bible

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What it means

nachal (נַחַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “valley, torrent”.

The bed of a stream that only carries water when it rains; the valley it runs through.

How to say it

na·chal

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. A channel that runs with water only in the rainy season.
  2. The hollow the water runs through.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Brook, torrent: a channel that carries water above all in the rainy season; also the narrow valley it runs through. BDB: a stream, especially a winter torrent; by implication, a narrow valley; also a shaft of a mine.

How we translate it

“Brook” 51 times, “Wadi” 25, “torrent” 13, “stream” 11, “streams” 11, “valley” 10, “torrents” 6, “brooks” 5… Usually “brook”; “wadi” for a dry streambed or as part of a name; “torrent” when the image is the force of the water; “valley” when the ground is meant; in Job 28:4, “a shaft” of a mine.

How it is translated

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

  • brook ×51
  • Wadi ×25
  • torrent ×13
  • stream ×11
  • streams ×11
  • valley ×10
  • torrents ×6
  • brooks ×5
  • streambeds ×2
  • wadis ×2
  • others ×5

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 26:17

    Isaac went away from there and camped in the valley of Gerar and lived there.

  • Genesis 26:19

    Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living water.

  • Genesis 32:23

    He took them and sent them across the stream, and he sent across what he had.

  • Leviticus 11:9

    These you may eat of all that is in the waters: everything that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the streams, those you may eat.

  • Leviticus 11:10

    But everything that has no fins and scales in the seas and in the streams, among all the swarming things of the waters and among all the living beings that are in the waters, they shall be a detestable thing for you.

  • Leviticus 23:40

    And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim seven days.

  • Numbers 13:23

    And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a carrying pole between two men, and also some of the pomegranates and of the figs.

  • Numbers 13:24

    That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the sons of Israel cut from there.

  • Numbers 21:12

    From there they set out and camped by the Brook Zered.

  • Numbers 21:14

    Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of YHWH: “Waheb in Suphah, and the brooks of the Arnon,

  • Numbers 21:15

    and the slope of the brooks that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans on the border of Moab.”

  • Numbers 24:6

    Like valleys they stretch out, like gardens beside a river, like aloes YHWH has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

  • Numbers 32:9

    They went up as far as the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, and they discouraged the heart of the sons of Israel so as not to go into the land that YHWH had given them.

  • Numbers 34:5

    And the border shall turn from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.

  • Deuteronomy 1:24

    They turned and went up into the hill country, came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

  • Deuteronomy 2:13

    “Now rise up and cross the Wadi Zered.” So we crossed the Wadi Zered.

  • Deuteronomy 2:14

    The days that we traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered were thirty-eight years, until the whole generation, the men of war, had come to an end from the midst of the camp, as YHWH had sworn to them.

  • Deuteronomy 2:24

    “Rise up, set out, and cross the Wadi Arnon. See, I have given into your hand Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and provoke him to war.

  • Deuteronomy 2:36

    From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the wadi, as far as Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; YHWH our Elohim delivered all of them before us.

  • Deuteronomy 2:37

    Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not come near, all the bank of the Wadi Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and all that YHWH our Elohim had commanded.

  • Deuteronomy 3:8

    So at that time we took the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

  • Deuteronomy 3:12

    This land we took possession of at that time. From Aroer, which is by the Wadi Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

  • Deuteronomy 3:16

    To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi as the border, and as far as the Wadi Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

  • Deuteronomy 4:48

    from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, as far as Mount Siyon, that is, Hermon,

  • Deuteronomy 8:7

    For YHWH your Elohim is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of springs and deeps flowing out in the plain and on the mountain;

  • Deuteronomy 9:21

    And your sin that you had made, the calf, I took and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

  • Deuteronomy 10:7

    From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of streams of water.)

  • Deuteronomy 21:4

    And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an ever-flowing stream, which is not worked or sown, and they shall break the neck of the heifer there in the stream.

  • Deuteronomy 21:6

    And all the elders of that city who are nearest to the slain one shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the stream,

  • Joshua 12:1

    Now these are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel struck and whose land they took possession of beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from the brook Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east:

  • Joshua 12:2

    Sihon king of the Amorite, who lived in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

  • Joshua 13:9

    from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the brook, and all the plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon;

  • Joshua 13:16

    And their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the brook, and all the plateau by Medeba;

  • Joshua 15:4

    and it passed along to Azmon, and went out to the Brook of Egypt, and the ends of the border were at the sea. This shall be your south border.

  • Joshua 15:7

    and the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and northward turned to Gilgal, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the brook; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and its ends were at En-rogel;

  • Joshua 15:47

    Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the Great Sea and its coast.

  • Joshua 16:8

    From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook of Kanah, and its ends were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families,

  • Joshua 17:9

    And the border went down to the Brook of Kanah, south of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. And the border of Manasseh was on the north of the brook, and its ends were at the sea.

  • Joshua 19:11

    and their border went up westward to Maralah, and touched Dabbesheth, and touched the brook that is east of Jokneam;

  • Judges 4:7

    And I will draw out to you, to the brook Kishon, Sisera, the commander of the army of Jabin, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will give him into your hand.’”

And 101 more times.