nazal · flow; streams

What it means

nazal (נָזַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flow; streams”.

Flowing waters.

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. For water to flow strongly or drop by drop, or for something like water to run.
2. Streams of water that run over the land.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• flow ×4
• streams ×3
• flowing ×2
• pour down ×2
• torrents ×2
• distill ×1
• melted ×1
• stream ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2

• Exodus 15:8

  By the breath of your nostrils the waters piled up; the streams stood up like a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

• Numbers 24:7

  Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be by many waters; and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

• Deuteronomy 32:2

  Let my teaching drip like the rain, let my saying distill like the dew, like showers on the vegetation and like downpours on the grass.

• Judges 5:5

  The mountains melted before YHWH, this Sinai, before YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

• Job 36:28

  which the clouds pour down and drip upon many human beings.

• Psalms 78:16

  And he brought out torrents from the crag, and made the waters flow down like rivers.

• Psalms 78:44

  and he turned into blood their canals, and their torrents, so that they could not drink.

• Psalms 147:18

  He sends his word and melts them; he makes his wind blow; the waters stream.

• Proverbs 5:15

  Drink water from your own cistern, and flowing water from the midst of your own well.

• Song of Songs 4:15

  a spring of gardens, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

• Song of Songs 4:16

  Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, let its balsams flow. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat his choice fruits.

• Isaiah 44:3

  For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your offshoots.

• Isaiah 45:8

  Drip, heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bear the fruit of salvation, and let it make righteousness sprout together; I, YHWH, have created it.”

• Isaiah 48:21

  And they did not thirst when he led them through the desolate places; water from the rock he made flow for them; and he split the rock, and the water flowed.

• Jeremiah 9:18

  and let them hurry and raise over us a wailing, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.

• Jeremiah 18:14

  Does the snow of Lebanon leave the rock of the field? Or are the foreign, cold, flowing waters uprooted?