יָבָל

yaval · stream

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2988 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

yaval (יָבָל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stream”.

A stream, a watercourse.

How to say it

ya·val

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. Water that flows without ceasing along a channel, like a stream.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • channels ×1
  • streams ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Isaiah 30:25

    And there will be, on every high mountain and on every lofty hill, streams, channels of water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

  • Isaiah 44:4

    And they will spring up among the grass, like willows by streams of water.