BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G5493
cheimarros — brook
χείμμαρος (shortened form of the more usual -οος, Attic contr., -ους), -ον (χεῖμα, ῥέω) [in LXX chiefly for נַחַל ;] winter-flowing; as subst., ὁ χ. (sc. ποταμός), a torrent: Jhn.18:1.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4323
mi.khal — brook
1) brook, stream 1a) meaning uncertain
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6155
a.ra.vah — (Brook of) Willows
Combined with na.chal (נַ֫חַל "Brook" H5158)
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2218
ze.red — Zered
§ Zered = "osier brook" a river east of the Jordan, in the region of Moab and Edom, a source of the Arnon river
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3747
ke.rit — Cherith
§ Cherith = "cutting" the brook where Elijah was hidden during a drought; east of Jordan
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5249
nim.rim — Nimrim
§ Nimrim = "limpid" or "pure" a stream or brook in the territory of Moab
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →A torrent. (1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the “book of the willows,” probably the Wady-el-Asha. (2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3). (3.) In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
