# נַחַל (nachal)

Israeli respelling: na-chal. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5158. 123 Old Testament occurrences.

a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)

King James renderings: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/nachal-h5158

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 26:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/17) — And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
- [Genesis 26:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/19) — And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- [Genesis 32:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/32/23) — And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
- [Leviticus 11:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/9) — These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall…
- [Leviticus 11:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/10) — And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in t…
- [Leviticus 23:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/40) — And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of th…
- [Numbers 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/23) — And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a s…
- [Numbers 13:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/24) — The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- [Numbers 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/12) — From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
- [Numbers 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/14) — Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
- [Numbers 21:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/15) — And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
- [Numbers 24:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/6) — As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar…
- [Numbers 32:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/9) — For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should n…
- [Numbers 34:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/5) — And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
- [Deuteronomy 1:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/24) — And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
- [Deuteronomy 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/13) — Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
- [Deuteronomy 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/14) — And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the genera…
- [Deuteronomy 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/24) — Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and…
- [Deuteronomy 2:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/36) — From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city t…
- [Deuteronomy 2:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/37) — Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains,…
- [Deuteronomy 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/8) — And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon un…
- [Deuteronomy 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/12) — And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gav…
- [Deuteronomy 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/16) — And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the riv…
- [Deuteronomy 4:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/48) — From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
- [Deuteronomy 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/7) — For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hill…
- [Deuteronomy 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/21) — And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as sma…
- [Deuteronomy 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/7) — From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
- [Deuteronomy 21:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/4) — And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heif…
- [Deuteronomy 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/6) — And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
- [Joshua 12:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/1) — Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the risin…
- [Joshua 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/2) — Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of t…
- [Joshua 13:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/9) — From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibo…
- [Joshua 13:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/16) — And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain b…
- [Joshua 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/4) — From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be y…
- [Joshua 15:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/7) — And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adumm…
- [Joshua 15:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/47) — Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border th…
- [Joshua 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/16/8) — The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the…
- [Joshua 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/9) — And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast o…
- [Joshua 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/19/11) — And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam;
- [Judges 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/7) — And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver…
- [Judges 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/13) — And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of…
- [Judges 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/21) — The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
- [Judges 16:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/4) — And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
- [1 Samuel 15:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/5) — And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
- [1 Samuel 17:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/40) — And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even i…
- [1 Samuel 30:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/9) — So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
- [1 Samuel 30:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/10) — But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
- [1 Samuel 30:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/21) — And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook…
- [2 Samuel 15:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/15/23) — And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the…
- [2 Samuel 17:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/13) — Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be n…
- [2 Samuel 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/5) — When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
- [2 Samuel 23:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/30) — Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
- [2 Samuel 24:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/5) — And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Ja…
- [1 Kings 2:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/37) — For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die:…
- [1 Kings 8:65](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/65) — And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egyp…
- [1 Kings 15:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/15/13) — And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and…
- [1 Kings 17:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/3) — Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
- [1 Kings 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/4) — And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
- [1 Kings 17:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/5) — So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
- [1 Kings 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/6) — And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
- [1 Kings 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/7) — And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
- [1 Kings 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/5) — And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the…
- [1 Kings 18:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/40) — And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the b…
- [2 Kings 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/3/16) — And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
- [2 Kings 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/3/17) — For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, b…
- [2 Kings 10:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/33) — From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon,…
- [2 Kings 23:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/6) — And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and s…
- [2 Kings 23:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/12) — And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made…
- [2 Kings 24:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/24/7) — And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Eup…
- [1 Chronicles 11:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/32) — Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
- [2 Chronicles 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/8) — Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath…
- [2 Chronicles 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/15/16) — And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa c…
- [2 Chronicles 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/16) — To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wil…
- [2 Chronicles 29:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/16) — And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in th…
- [2 Chronicles 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/14) — And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook…
- [2 Chronicles 32:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/32/4) — So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Wh…
- [2 Chronicles 33:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/14) — Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gat…
- [Nehemiah 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/15) — Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
- [Job 6:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/15) — My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
- [Job 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/17) — He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- [Job 21:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/33) — The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
- [Job 22:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/24) — Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
- [Job 28:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/4) — The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
- [Job 30:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/6) — To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
- [Job 40:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/40/22) — The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
- [Psalms 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/4) — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
- [Psalms 36:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/8) — They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
- [Psalms 74:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/15) — Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
- [Psalms 78:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/20) — Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his peo…
- [Psalms 83:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/83/9) — Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
- [Psalms 104:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/10) — He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
- [Psalms 110:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/110/7) — He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
- [Psalms 124:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/124/4) — Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
- [Proverbs 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/4) — The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
- [Proverbs 30:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/17) — The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shal…
- [Ecclesiastes 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/7) — All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
- [Song of Solomon 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/6/11) — I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
- [Isaiah 7:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/19) — And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all b…
- [Isaiah 11:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/15) — And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and sha…
- [Isaiah 15:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/15/7) — Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
- [Isaiah 27:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/12) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be…
- [Isaiah 30:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/28) — And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there sha…
- [Isaiah 30:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/33) — For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; th…
- [Isaiah 34:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/9) — And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
- [Isaiah 35:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/35/6) — Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the…
- [Isaiah 57:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/5) — Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
- [Isaiah 57:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/6) — Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast off…
- [Isaiah 66:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/12) — For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall y…
- [Jeremiah 31:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/9) — They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way,…
- [Jeremiah 31:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/40) — And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate t…
- [Jeremiah 47:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/47/2) — Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that…
- [Lamentations 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/18) — Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let n…
- [Ezekiel 47:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/5) — Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that…
- [Ezekiel 47:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/6) — And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
- [Ezekiel 47:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/7) — Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
- [Ezekiel 47:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/9) — And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be…
- [Ezekiel 47:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/12) — And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither sh…
- [Ezekiel 47:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/19) — And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side sou…
- [Ezekiel 48:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/28) — And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the…
- [Joel 3:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/3/18) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers…
- [Amos 5:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/24) — But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
- [Amos 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/14) — But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the…
- [Micah 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/6/7) — Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, th…