Gematria of River
9 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “river” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 374 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 9
- Occurrences
- 374
- Distinct values
- 8
The 9 Hebrew words rendered “river”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
First appearance ·Genesis 26:17בראשית כו:יזבְּנַֽחַל
a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
First appearance ·Genesis 2:10בראשית ב:יוְנָהָרּ
a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria
First appearance ·Genesis 41:1בראשית מא:אהַיְאֹֽר
properly, containing, i.e. a tube; also a bed or valley of astream; also a strong thing or a hero
First appearance ·2 Samuel 22:16שמואל ב כב:טזאֲפִקֵי
a river, especially the Euphrates
First appearance ·Daniel 7:10דניאל ז:ינְהַר
a rill (i.e. small channel of water, as in irrigation)
First appearance ·Isaiah 30:25ישעיהו ל:כהפְּלָגִים
a runlet, i.e. gully
First appearance ·Job 20:17איוב כ:יזבִפְלַגּוֹת
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What is the gematria of river?
The Tanakh renders “river” with 9 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: נחל = 88, נהר = 255, יאר = 211, and 5 more.
How do you say river in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 9 Hebrew words for “river”; the most frequent are נחל (nachal), 141 times; נהר (nâhâr), 134 times; יאר (yᵉʼôr), 65 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.