Hebrew verb · H5140
נָזַל
nazalnaw-zal'
to flow
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâzal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5140is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5140
to drip, or shed by trickling
The King James renders it: distil, drop, flood, (cause to) flow(-ing), gush out, melt, pour (down), running water, stream.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nazal is rendered "to flow". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:8At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
Exodus 15:8נֹזְלִ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and streams2
- let them flow2
- streams2
- they flow2
- and flowing1
- and streams their1
- flowing1
- he caused to flow1
- it will flow1
- may it distil1
- they flowed1
- they may flow1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָזַר | nazar | to dedicate | Uses10 |
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יִזְּלוּ־3
- וְנֹזְלִ֖ים2
- הִזִּ֣יל1
- וְ֝נֹזְלֵיהֶ֗ם1
- וְ֝נֹזְלִ֗ים1
- יִֽזַּל־1
- יִזְּל֥וּ1
- יִזְּל֣וּ1
- נוֹזְלִ֣ים1
- נוֹזְלִֽים׃1
- נָזְל֖וּ1
- נֹזְלִ֑ים1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural5HVqi3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural3HC/Vqrmpa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural3HVqrmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Vqrmpc/Sp3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
Exodus
one use
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
- נֹזְלִ֑יםnozelimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: streams
Numbers
one use
Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
- יִֽזַּל־yizal-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will flow
Deuteronomy
one use
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
- תִּזַּ֥לtizalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: may it distil
Judges
one use
The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
- נָזְל֖וּnazeluverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they flowed
Job
one use
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
- יִזְּל֥וּyizeluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they flow
Psalms
three uses
He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
- נוֹזְלִ֣יםnozlimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: streams
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
- וְ֝נֹזְלֵיהֶ֗םvenozeleihemconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and streams their
He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
- יִזְּלוּ־yizelu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they flow
Proverbs
one use
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- וְ֝נֹזְלִ֗יםvenozelimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and streams
Song of Solomon
two uses
You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
- וְנֹזְלִ֖יםvenozelimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and flowing
Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.
- יִזְּל֣וּyizeluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them flow
Isaiah
three uses
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
- וְנֹזְלִ֖יםvenozelimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and streams
Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
- יִזְּלוּ־yizelu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them flow
They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
- הִזִּ֣ילhizilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he caused to flow
Jeremiah
two uses
Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
- יִזְּלוּ־yizelu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they may flow
Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
- נוֹזְלִֽים׃nozlimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: flowing
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.