STRONGS NUMBER H2975


Word Summary
yeor: stream (of the Nile), stream, canal
Original Word: יְאֹר
Transliteration: yeor
Phonetic Spelling: (yeh-ore')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: stream (of the Nile), stream, canal
Meaning: Nile -- a channel, a fosse, canal, shaft, the Nile, the Tigris
Strong's Concordance
brook, flood, river, stream

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 -- brook, flood, river, stream.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2975. yeor

יְאוֺר יְאֹר,noun masculineExodus 7:21 stream of the Nile, stream, canal (Egyptian loan-word = Egyptian °iotr, °io°r, watercourse, Coptic eioor, ior; also °iotr±o, °io°r±o, Coptic eiero, iaro, Nile, SteindBAs i. 612; in Assyrian ia°uru, stream, °Iaru°û, river Nile, Idib., Hptib. 171 Jägerib 466) — absolute הַיְאֹרGenesis 41:1 37t.; הַיְאוֺרIsaiah 19:8; הַיְאֹ֫רָהExodus 1:22; יְאוֺרIsaiah 19:7 (3 t. in verse) + 2t.; כָּאֹר‎ (err. for כַּיְאֹר‎) Amos 8:8; construct כִּיאֹר9:5; כִּיאוֺר8:8; suffix יְאֹרִיEzekiel 29:3b (Co יאר‎, compare 29:9 and ᵑ7 ᵑ6‎); plural יְאֹרִיםExodus 8:1 4t.; construct יְאֹרֵיIsaiah 7:18 2t.; יְאוֺרֵי2 Kings 19:24; suffix יְאֹרֶיךָEzekiel 29:4 (twice in verse); 29:5 + 29:4 (strike out ᵐ5‎ Co) + 29:10 (Co יְאֹרְךָ‎); יְאֹרָיו29:3; יְאֹדֵיהֶםExodus 7:19; Psalm 78:44; —

1 stream of the Nile, river Nile, usually with article Genesis 41:1-2, 3 (twice in verse); 41:18; Exodus 1:22; 2:3, 5 (twice in verse); 4:9 (twice in verse); 7:15, 17, 18 (3 t. in verse); 7:20 (twice in verse); 7:21 (3 t. in verse); 7:24 (twice in verse); Exodus 7:28; 8:5; 8:7; 17:5 (all J E), Amos 8:8; 9:5; Isaiah 19:7 (3 t. in verse); 19:8; 23:3 ("" שִׁחֹר‎), 23:10; Jeremiah 46:7-8, (simile of Egyptian invasion), Ezekiel 29:3b (read יאר‎, see above), 29:9; Zechariah 10:11; more fully מִצְרַיִם יְאֹרAmos 8:8; 9:5.

2 plural:

a. Nile-arms, Nile-canals, מִצְרַים יְאֹרֵיIsaiah 7:18; מָצוֺר יְאֹרֵי19:6 ("" נְהָרוֺת‎), 37:25 = 2 Kings 19:24; see also Nahum 3:8; Exodus 7:19; 8:1 (both P; "" אֲגַמִּים נְהָרֹת,‎, etc.), Psalm 78:44 ("" נֹזְלִים‎), Ezekiel 29:3-4, (twice in verse); 29:5, 10 + 29:4 ᵑ0‎ (but strike out ᵐ5‎ Co), 30:12.

b. watercourses in General, יָדָ֑יִם רַחֲבֵי יְאֹרִיםIsaiah 33:21 ("" נְהָרִים‎; compare Late Hebrew יְאוֺר‎, late Aramaic יְאוֺרָא‎).

3 shafts, made in mining Job 28:10 (בַּצּוּרוֺת‎).

4 יְאֹר‎, singular, of Tigris, Daniel 12:5 (twice in verse); 12:6-7, (compare 10:4).

כָּאֹרAmos 8:8, see יְאֹר‎.

כבב‎ (√ of following, compare Sta§ 116, 3; meaning not wholly clear; Arabic is roll threads into a ball, ball of thread, but also troop of horses, band of men, etc.; Ethiopic is in orbem circum-sistere, orbis, circulus, etc.; hence perhaps star, as round, or as collected in bands clusters, constellations; Assyrian kabâbu = burn; kabâbê, shields, is written ‡abâbê by DlHWB 578).