יְאֹר
yᵉʼôr · yeh-ore'
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
Lexicon
Derivation: of Egyptian origin;
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
- 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
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: brook, flood, river, stream.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › strength, the leader › the head, the highest
The hand that works of strength, the leader of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יְאֹר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
65 occurrences · 65 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the river12 · 24%
- out of the river4 · 8%
- the river4 · 8%
- of thy rivers4 · 8%
- and the river3 · 6%
- by the river's2 · 4%
- that were in the river2 · 4%
- in the river2 · 4%
- by the brooks2 · 4%
- by the river1 · 2%
- into the river1 · 2%
- herself at the river1 · 2%
- along by the river's1 · 2%
- which are in the river1 · 2%
- that is in the river1 · 2%
- upon their rivers1 · 2%
- that was in the river1 · 2%
- over the rivers1 · 2%
- up all the rivers1 · 2%
- rivers1 · 2%
- their rivers1 · 2%
- of the rivers1 · 2%
- and the brooks1 · 2%
- of the brooks1 · 2%
- into the brooks1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.