8. ^% peleg (Psa. xlvi, 4 [5]; elsewhere "river"), denotes an artificial rivulet or channel for watering land. See Ip.rigation.
9. Chald, ^inS, nehdr (Dan. vii, 10; elsewhere "riv- er"), corresponds to the Heb. THJ, nahdr, which desig- nates a perennial current of water, and is the most reg- ular term. See River.
10. noTafioQ (Luke vi, 48, 49; elsewhere usually " river," sometimes " flood" or " water") is the proper Greek word for a river of any kind. See Watei;.
STREAM OF EGYPT (C'^::'? bn_D, ^Ylchal Mits- rdyim; Sept, 'PiroKiipoupa [pi.]; Yulg.torrens yEgyp- ti) occurs once in the A. V. instead of "the river of Egj'pt," apparent!}- to avoid tautology (Isa. xxvii. 12). It IS the best translation of this doubtful name, for it expresses the sense of the Hebrew while retaining the vagueness it has, so long as we cainiot decide whether it is applied to the Pelusian branch of the Nile or the stream of the Wady el-'Arish. Sec Nile; Riveu of Egypt.
Streaneshalch, Synod of. See Whitby, Coun- cil OF.
Streater, Robert, an English painter, was bom in 1624. Upon the restoration of Charles II he was made the king's sergeant -painter, and was greatly prized by him. He died in 16H0. His principal works are in the Theatre of Oxford and the Chapel at AIl-S<iuls' College: The Battle of the GiuiUs with the Cods is at Sir Robert
Clayton's, and .Vnscs and .1 arou in St. Michael's Church, Cornhill. See Chalmers, JJiog. Diet. s. v.
Street (yn, chits, properly out of doors ; -TT"^, rechob, jiroperly a wide place; p=l'ij, shuk; properly an alley; nXarua, a broad place ; pr^rj, a passage). The streets of a modern Oriental town present a great con- trast to those with which we are familiar, being gen- erally narrow, tortuous, and gloomy, even in the best towns, such as Cairo (Lane, i, 2."j), Damascus (Porter, i, 30), and Alei)i)o (Husseli, i, 14). Their character is mainly tixed by the climate and the style of architect- ure, the narrowness being due to the extreme heat, and the gloominess to the circumstance of the windows look- ing, for the most part, into the inner court. As these same influences existed in ancient times, we should be inclined to think that the streets were much of the same ciiaracter as at present. 'I'he opjxisite o|iinion has, in- deed, been maintained on account of the Hebrew term rechob, frequently applied to streets, and properly mean- ing awiile place. The specific signification of this term, however, is rather a court-yard or square. It is applied in this sense to the broad open space adjacent to the gate of a town, where public business was transacted (l)eut. xiii, \6^, and, again, to the court before the Tem- ple (Ezra X, 9) or before a palace (Esth. iv, 6). Its application to the street may point to the compar- ative width of the main street, or it may perhaps con- vey the idea of publicity rather than of width, a sense well adapted to the passages in which it occurs (e.g. Gen. xix, 2; Judg. xix, 15; 2 Sam. xxi, 12). The street called " Straight" (q. v.) in Damascus (.\cts ix, ) 1) was an ex- ce|)tion to the rule of narrowness ; it was a noble thor- oughfare, one hundred feet wide, divided in the Roman age by colonna<ies into three avenues — the central one for foot i)assengers, the side passages for vehicles and horsemen going in different directions (Porter, i, 47), The sliops and warehouses were probably collected to- gether into bazaars in ancient as in modern times. We read of the baker's bazaar (.ler. xxxvii, 21 ). and of the wool, brazier, and clothes bazaars (d-yopn) in Jerusalem (Josephus, \V(rr, v, 8, 1) ; and perhaps the agreement be- tween Benhadad and Aliab tliat the latter should " make streets in Damascus" (1 Kings xx, .'54) was in reference rather to bazaars (the term chuts here used Ix'ing the same as in Jer, xxxvii, 21), and thus amounted to the establishment of a jus cominercii. A lively description of the bazaars at Damascus is furnished us by Porter (i, 58-60), The broad and narrow streets are distinguished under the terms rechob and chiits in the following pas- sages, though the ))iiint is frequently lost in the A, V, by rendering the latter term "abroad" or "without," Prov, V, 16; vii, 12; xxii, 13; Jer, v, 1 ; ix, 21 ; Amos V, 16; Xahum, ii, 4, The same distinction is apparent- ly expressed by the terms rechob and shuk in Cant, iii, 2, and by TrXartia and pv^u) in Luke xiv, 21 : but the etymological sense of shuk points rather to a ]ilace of concourse, such as a market -plac<'. while pi'^ti] is ap|)lie<l to the "Straight" street of Damascus (Act.s ix, 1 1), and is also used in reference to the Pliarisees (Matt, vi, 2) as a place of the greatest pulilicity; it is therefore doubt- ful whether the contrast can be sustained, Jose|)hus describes the alleys of .Ferusalem under the term aTtvm- TToi {War, V, H, 1), The term shi'ik occurs elsewhere only in Prov, vii, H; Ecdes, xii, 4, .5. The term chiils, already noticed, applies generally to that wiiich is out- side the residence (as in I'rov. vii, 12, A, V, " she is with- out"), and hence to other |)laces tiinu streets, as to a pasture-ground (Jo!) xiii, 17, where the A. V. requires emendation). That streets occasionally hatl names ap- pears from .Ter. xxxvii, 21; Acts ix, II. That they were generally unpaved may be inferred from the no- tices of the pavement laid by Herml the Great at Anti- och (Josephus, .1 ?//, xvi, 5, 3) and by Herod Agri|ipa H at .lerusalem (itnd. xx, 9, 7). Hence pavement forms one of the peculiar features of the ideal .lerusalem (Tob. xiii, 17; Rev. xxi, 21). Each street and bazaar in a