Topic
Watercourse
20 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 4:21ISBE
And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
- 2 Samuel 5:8ISBE
And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
- 2 Kings 18:17ISBE
¶ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool,…
- Job 38:25ISBE
Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
- Proverbs 21:1ISBE
The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
- Isaiah 7:3ISBE
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;
- Isaiah 30:25ISBE
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- Isaiah 36:2ISBE
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
- Isaiah 44:4ISBE
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
- Jeremiah 17:8ISBE
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
- Ezekiel 6:3ISBE
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
- Ezekiel 31:12ISBE
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from…
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- Ezekiel 32:6 ISBE
- Ezekiel 34:13 ISBE
- Ezekiel 35:8 ISBE
- Ezekiel 36:4 ISBE
- Ezekiel 36:6 ISBE
- Daniel 8:2 ISBE
- Daniel 8:3 ISBE
- Daniel 8:6 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 20 references
wo'-ter-kors:
(1) 'aphiq (Eze 6:3; 31:12; 32:6; 34:13; 35:8; 36:4,6), the King James Version "river," elsewhere "stream," "channel," or "brook."
(2) pelegh (Pr 21:1). "The king's heart is in the hand of Yahweh as the watercourses," the King James Version "rivers," elsewhere "streams" or "rivers."
(3) yabhal, yibheley mayim, "watercourses" (English Versions of the Bible) (Isa 44:4); in Isa 30:25, English Versions of the Bible has "streams of water"; compare yubhal, "rivers" (Jer 17:8); yubhal, "Jubal" (Ge 4:21); 'ubhal, "the river Ulai" (Da 8:2,3,6).
(4) te`alah, "channel," the King James Version "watercourse" (Job 38:25); elsewhere "conduit," "the conduit of the upper pool" (2Ki 18:17; Isa 7:3; 36:2).
(5) tsinnor, "watercourse," the King James Version "gutter" (2Sa 5:8).
See BROOK; RIVER; STREAM; WATERFALL.
Alfred Ely Day
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.