Strong's Hebrew · H6388

H6388 peleg

פֶּלֶג

peh'-leg

stream

peleg appears 10 times in Scripture, in Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah and Lamentations. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a rill (i.e. small channel of water, as in irrigation)

In the King James Version

river, stream.

Derivation

from H6385 (פָּלַג);

Appears 10 times in Scripture

Isaiah 30:25

“And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.”

Lamentations 3:48

“Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Psalms 119:136

“My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.”

Psalms 1:3

“He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.”

Proverbs 21:1

“The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.”

Job 29:6

“when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!”

Proverbs 5:16

“Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?”

Psalms 46:4

“There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.”

Isaiah 32:2

“Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.”

Psalms 65:9

“You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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Strong's concordance glosses from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0). Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain.

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