yeor · Nile

What it means

yeor (יְאֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Nile”.

The Nile, the great river of Egypt; also its channels.

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.

The place

• Nile

  Today: Nile River, Uganda to Egypt and the Mediterranean

  Egypt's great river; it flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.

  Pharaoh dreamed beside the Nile (Gen 41:1). God turned its waters to blood (Exod 7:20), and baby Moses was placed on its bank (Exod 2:3-5).

  Genesis 41:1Exodus 7:20Exodus 2:52 Kings 19:24

How it is translated

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

• Nile ×44
• channels ×9
• canals ×5
• river ×4
• rivers ×2
• streams ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Exodus×25
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×9
• Daniel×4
• Amos×4
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 41:1

  At the end of two full years, Pharaoh was dreaming, and look, he was standing by the Nile.

• Genesis 41:2

  And look, from the Nile there came up seven cows, beautiful in appearance and fat in flesh, and they grazed in the reed grass.

• Genesis 41:3

  And look, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly in appearance and thin in flesh, and they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

• Genesis 41:17

  Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph: “In my dream, look, I was standing on the bank of the Nile;

• Genesis 41:18

  and look, from the Nile there came up seven cows, fat in flesh and beautiful in form, and they grazed in the reed grass.

• Exodus 1:22

  Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall throw into the Nile, but every daughter you shall let live.”

• Exodus 2:3

  When she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of papyrus, coated it with bitumen and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

• Exodus 2:5

  The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, while her young women were walking beside the Nile. She saw the ark among the reeds and sent her maid, and she took it.

• Exodus 4:9

  And it will be that if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some of the water of the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

• Exodus 7:15

  Go to Pharaoh in the morning; look, he is going out to the water. Station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile, and the staff that was turned into a serpent you shall take in your hand.

• Exodus 7:17

  Thus says YHWH: “By this you will know that I am YHWH: look, I am going to strike with the staff that is in my hand the water that is in the Nile, and it will be turned into blood.

• Exodus 7:18

  The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile.”’”

• Exodus 7:19

  YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their canals, over their pools, and over all the reservoirs of their water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

• Exodus 7:20

  Moses and Aaron did so, as YHWH had commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned into blood.

• Exodus 7:21

  The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and the blood was in all the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 7:24

  All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink from the water of the Nile.

• Exodus 7:25

  Seven days were completed after YHWH struck the Nile.

• Exodus 8:3

  The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, into the room where you sleep, and onto your bed, into the houses of your servants and among your people, into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

• Exodus 8:5

  YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and bring up the frogs on the land of Egypt.’”

• Exodus 8:9

  Moses said to Pharaoh, “Have the honor over me: for when shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and from your houses and remain only in the Nile?”

• Exodus 8:11

  The frogs will depart from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”

• Exodus 17:5

  YHWH said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and your staff, with which you struck the Nile, take in your hand, and go.

• 2 Kings 19:24

  I have dug and drunk foreign waters, and I will dry up with the sole of my feet all the rivers of Egypt.’

• Job 28:10

  In the rocks he cuts channels, and every precious thing his eye sees.

• Psalms 78:44

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

• Isaiah 7:18

  And it will happen on that day that YHWH will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

• Isaiah 19:6

  And the rivers will stink; the canals of Egypt will dwindle and dry up; reed and rush will wither.

• Isaiah 19:7

  The meadows by the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile, and every sown field of the Nile will dry up, be driven away, and be no more.

• Isaiah 19:8

  And the fishermen will moan, and all who cast a hook in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread a net on the surface of the waters will languish.

• Isaiah 23:3

  And on many waters was the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, its revenue; and it was the marketplace of nations.

• Isaiah 23:10

  Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no girdle any longer.

• Isaiah 33:21

  But there YHWH will be magnificent for us, a place of rivers, of canals broad on every side; no galley with oars will go on it, and no magnificent ship will pass over it.

• Isaiah 37:25

  I have dug and drunk waters, and I will dry up with the sole of my feet all the rivers of Egypt.’

• Jeremiah 46:7

  Who is this that rises like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters surge?

• Jeremiah 46:8

  Egypt rises like the Nile, and like the rivers the waters surge; and it said, “I will rise, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and those who dwell in it.”

• Ezekiel 29:3

  Speak and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great sea monster lying in the midst of his channels, who has said, “Mine is my Nile, and I made it for myself.”

• Ezekiel 29:4

  And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your channels stick to your scales; and I will bring you up from the midst of your channels, and all the fish of your channels will stick to your scales.

• Ezekiel 29:5

  And I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your channels; on the face of the field you will fall; you will not be gathered nor be collected; to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I have given you as food.

• Ezekiel 29:9

  And the land of Egypt will become a desolation and a ruin, and they will know that I am YHWH; because he said, “The Nile is mine, and I made it,”

• Ezekiel 29:10

  therefore look, I am against you and against your channels, and I will make the land of Egypt into ruins of dryness, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene and as far as the border of Cush.

And 25 more times.