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BESOR, THE BROOK

be'-sor, (nachal besor; Codex Alexandrinus, Bechor, Codex Vaticanus, Beana; 1 Samuel 30:9, 20, 21; Josephus, Ant, VI, xiv, 6): A torrent-bed (nachal) mentioned in the account of David's pursuit of the Amalekites. Thought to be Wady Ghazza, which enters the sea Southwest of Gaza.

BROOK

brook (nachal, 'aphiq, ye'or, mikhal; cheimarrhos): In Palestine there are few large streams. Of the smaller ones many flow only during the winter, or after a heavy rain. The commonest Hebrew word for brook is nachal, which is also used for river and for valley, and it is not always clear whether the valley or the stream in the valley is meant (Numbers 13:23 Deuteronomy 2:13 2 Samuel 15:23). The Arabic wady, which is sometimes referred to in this connection, is not an exact parallel, for while it may be used of a dry valley or of a valley containing a stream, it means the valley and not the stream. 'Aphiq and ye'or are translated both "brook" and "river," ye'or being generally used of the Nile (Exodus 1:22, etc.), though in Daniel 12:5-7, of the Tigris. Cheirnarrhos, "winter-flowing," is applied in John 18:1 to the Kidron. Many of the streams of Palestine which are commonly called rivers would in other countries be called brooks, but in such a dry country any perennial stream assumes a peculiar importance.

Alfred Ely Day

BROOK OF EGYPT, THE

(nachal = "a flowing stream," "a valley"; best translated by the oriental word wady, which means, as the Hebrew word does, both a stream and its valley).

1. Name:

The Brook of Egypt is mentioned six times in the Old Testament (Numbers 34:5 Joshua 15:4, 47 1 Kings 8:65 Isaiah 27:12); once, Genesis 15:18, by another word, nahar. The Brook of Egypt was not an Egyptian stream at all, but a little desert stream near the borderland of Egypt a wady of the desert, and, perhaps, the dividing line between Canaan and Egypt. It is usually identified with the Wady el 'Arish of modern geography.

2. Description:

The Brook of Egypt comes down from the plateau et Tih in the Sinai peninsula and falls into the Mediterranean Sea at latitude 31 5 North, longitude 33 42 East. Its source is at the foot of the central mountain group of the peninsula. The upper portion of the wady is some 400 ft. above the sea. Its course, with one sharp bend to the West in the upper part, runs nearly due North along the western slope of the plateau. Its whole course of 140 miles lies through the desert. These streams in the Sinai peninsula are usually dry water-courses, which at times become raging rivers, but are very seldom babbling "brooks." The floods are apt to come with little or no warning when cloudbursts occur in the mountain region drained.

3. Archaeology:

The use of the Hebrew word nachal for this wady points to a curious and most interesting and important piece of archaeological evidence on the critical question of the origin of the Pentateuch. In the Pentateuch, the streams of Egypt are designated by an Egyptian word (ye'or) which belongs to Egypt, as the word bayou does to the lower Mississippi valley, while every other stream mentioned, not except this desert stream, "the Brook of Egypt," is designated by one or other of two Hebrew words, na chal and nahar. Each of these words occurs 13 times in the Pentateuch, but never of the streams of Egypt. The use of nahar in Exodus 7:19 in the account of the plagues is not really an exception for the word is then used generically in contrast with ye'or to distinguish between the "flowing streams," neharoth, and the sluggish irrigation branches of the Nile, ye'orim, "canals" (compare CANALS) (Isaiah 19:6; Isaiah 33:21), while ye'or occurs 30 times but never of any other than the streams of Egypt. There is thus a most exa ct discrimination in the use of these various words, a discrimination which is found alike in the Priestly Code (P), Jahwist (Jahwist), and Elohim (E) of the documentary theory, and also where the editor is supposed to have altered the documents. Such discrimination is scarcely credible on the hypothesis that the Pentateuch is by more than one author, in later than Mosaic times, or that it is by any author without Egyptian training. The documentary theory which requires these instances of the use of these various words for "river" to have been recorded by several different authors or redactors, in different ages and all several centuries after the Exodus, far away from Egypt and opportunities for accurate knowledge of its language, seems utterly incompatible with such discriminating use of these words. And even if the elimination of all mistakes be attributed to one person, a final editor, the difficulty is scarcely lessened. For as no purpose is served by this discriminating use of words, it is evidently a natural phenomenon. In every instance of the use of ye'or, one or other of the usual Hebrew words, nachal or nahar would have served the purpose of the author, just as any foreign religious writer might with propriety speak of the "streams of Louisiana," though a Louisianian would certainly call them "bayous." How does the author come to use ye'or even where his native Hebrew words might have been used appropriately? Why never, where its appropriateness is even doubtful, not even saying ye'or for nachal of the "Brook of Egypt"? It is not art, but experience, in the use of a language which gives such skill as to attend to so small a thing in so extensive use without a single mistake. The only time and place at which such experience in the use of Egyptian words is to be expected in Israel is among the people of the Exodus not long subsequent to that event.

M. G. Kyle

CHERITH, THE BROOK

ke'-rith (nachal kerith; Cheimarrhous Chorrhath): The place where Elijah hid and was miraculously fed, after announcing the drought to Ahab (1 Kings 17:3). It is described as being "before," that is "east," of Jordan. It cannot therefore be identified with Wady el-Kelt, to the West of Jericho. The retreat must be sought in some recess of the Gilead uplands with which doubtless Elijah had been familiar in his earlier days.

KIDRON, THE BROOK

(nachal qidhron; in John 18:1 (the King James Version Cedron), ho cheimarrhous ton Kedron, according to the Revised Version margin, the last two words are to be considered as meaning "of the cedars." The Hebrew word has been very generally accepted as from qadhar, "to become black," but it is an attractive suggestion (Cheyne) that it may be a phonetic variation of gidderon, "a spot for enclosures for cattle," of which latter there must have been many around the now buried caves which lay at the base of the cliffs around the spring Gihon):

1. Wady Sitti Miriam:

The Nachal Qidhron is the valley known today as the Wady Sitti Miriam, which lies between the eastern walls of Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives. It commences in the plateau to the North of the city, and after making a wide sweep Southeast, under the name Wady el Joz ("Valley of the Walnuts"), passes South until level with the southeastern corner of the temple-area where its bed is spanned by an old bridge; here the bottom of the valley, 40 ft. beneath the present surface level, is 400 ft. below the temple-platform. From this point it narrows and deepens gradually, bending slightly West of South, and, after receiving the Tyropoeon valley, joins a little farther Southwest with the Valley of Hinnom to form the Wady en Nar which winds on through the "wilderness of Judea" to the Dead Sea. Where the three valleys run together is a large open space filled with gardens (the KING'S GARDEN, which see), which are kept irrigated all the year round by means of the overflow waters from the `Ain Silwan (see SILOAM). It is where the Hinnom valley runs into the Kidron that some would locate TOPHETH (which see). Except at the irrigated gardens, the ravine is a dry valley containing water only during and immediately after heavy rain, but in ancient times the rocky bottom-now buried beneath many feet of rich soil-must have contained a little stream from Gihon for at least some hundreds of yards. This was the "brook that flowed through the midst of the land" (2 Chronicles 32:4). The length of the valley from its head to Bir Eyyub is 2 3/4 miles.

2. Traditions:

Since the 4th century A.D., this valley has been known as the Valley of Jehoshaphat (see JEHOSHAPHAT, VALLEY OF), and from quite early times it was a favorite situation for interments (2 Kings 23:4, 6, 12 2 Chronicles 34:4, 5); it is by Moslem and Jewish tradition the scene of the last judgment, and was known to the Moslems in the Middle Ages as Wady Jehannum; see GEHENNA. It is probable that the "graves of the common people," where King Jehoiakim cast the body of the prophet Uriah, were here (Jeremiah 26:23), and it has been suggested, with less probability, that here too may have been the scene of Ezekiel's vision of the "valley of dry bones" (Ezekiel 37; compare Jeremiah 31:40).

3. The Fields of Kidron:

The Fields of Kidron (2 Kings 23:4), though generally identified with the open, lower part of this valley, where it is joined by the Tyropoeon valley, may more probably have been in the upper part where the wide expanded valley receives the name Wady el Joz; this part is actually on the road to Bethel.

4. Historical Associations:

The most dramatic scene associated with the Kidron is that recorded in connection with its earliest Scriptural mention (2 Samuel 15:23), when David, flying before his rebellious son Absalom, here stood on the Jerusalem side of the valley while all his adherents passed over. "And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron.... toward the way of the wilderness." The passing over this brook appears to have been viewed as the solemn abandonment of the Jerusalem territory (compare 1 Kings 2:37). In 1 Kings 15:13 2 Chronicles 15:16, we read that Asa burnt at the brook Kidron "an abominable image for an Asherab" which Maacah, his mother, had set up. In the reforms of Hezekiah, "all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh" was carried by the Levites to the brook Kidron (2 Chronicles 29:16); "All the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron" (2 Chronicles 30:14). This locality was again used in the reforms of Josiah when the king "brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people" (2 Kings 23:6). The same treatment was given to the vessels made for Baal, the Asherah and the host of heaven (2 Kings 23:4), and the two idolatrous altars of Manasseh (2 Kings 23:12). Josephus (Ant., IX, vii, 3) states that Athaliah was slain in the valley of Kidron, but this does not quite tally with the account (2 Kings 11:16). It was a valley associated with graves and the ashes of abominations, but it was prophesied that it should be "holy unto Yahweh" (Jeremiah 31:40). Twice it is mentioned simply as "the valley," nachal (2 Chronicles 33:14 Nehemiah 2:15). Very different from these earlier scenes is the last Scriptural reference (John 18:1), when Jesus "went forth with his disciples over the brook Kidron" for His last hours of spiritual struggle and prayer before the turmoil of the end.

E. W. G. Masterman

MOCHMUR, THE BROOK

mok'-mur, ho cheimarrhos Mochmour): The torrent bed in a valley on which stood Chusi, not far from Ekrebel (Judith 7:18). The latter may be identified with `Aqrabeh, East of Nablus. Wady Makhfuriyeh runs to the South of `Aqrabeh, and probably represents the ancient Mochmur.

WILLOWS, THE BROOK OF THE

Evidently mentioned as the boundary of Moab (Isaiah 15:7) and generally identified with the brook Zered.

See BROOK; ZERED.

EGYPT, BROOK (RIVER, STREAM) OF

See BROOK OF EGYPT.

Greek

2748. Kedron -- Kidron, a brook and wadi near Jer.
... Kedron. 2749 . Kidron, a brook and wadi near Jer. ... Word Origin of Hebrew origin
Qidron Definition Kidron, a brook and wadi near Jer. NASB Word Usage Kidron (1). ...
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5493. cheimarros -- flowing in winter, a torrent
... Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: cheimarros Phonetic Spelling:
(khi'-mar-hros) Short Definition: a winter torrent Definition: a storm-brook, a ...
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4215. potamos -- a river
... Probably from a derivative of the alternate of pino (compare potos); a current,
brook or freshet (as drinkable), ie Running water -- flood, river, stream, water ...
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1068. Gethsemani -- Gethsemane, an olive orchard on the Mt. of ...
... Gethsemani Phonetic Spelling: (gheth-say-man-ay') Short Definition: Gethsemane
Definition: Gethsemane, a small place between the brook Kidron and the Mount of ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4323. mikal -- a brook, stream
... 4322, 4323. mikal. 4324 . a brook, stream. Transliteration: mikal Phonetic
Spelling: (me-kawl') Short Definition: brook. Word Origin ...
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3747. Kerith -- a brook where Elijah was hidden
... Kerith. 3748 . a brook where Elijah was hidden. Transliteration: Kerith Phonetic
Spelling: (ker-eeth') Short Definition: Cherith. ... Kerith, a brook of Palestine. ...
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5158. nachal -- torrent, torrent-valley, wadi
... nachal. 5158a . torrent, torrent-valley, wadi. Transliteration: nachal Phonetic
Spelling: (nakh'-al) Short Definition: brook. brook, flood, river, stream, valley ...
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650. aphiq -- a channel
... tubes (1). brook, channel, mighty, river, scale, stream, strong piece. From
'acaph; properly, containing, ie A tube; also a bed or ...
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5158a. nachal -- torrent, torrent-valley, wadi
... 5158, 5158a. nachal or nachlah or nachalah. 5158b . torrent, torrent-valley,
wadi. Transliteration: nachal or nachlah or nachalah Short Definition: brook. ...
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2975. yeor -- stream (of the Nile), stream, canal
... brook, flood, river, stream. Of Egyptian origin; a channel, eg A fosse,
canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of ...
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2218. Zered -- a wadi East of the Dead Sea
... Zared, Zered. From an unused root meaning to be exuberant in growth; lined with
shrubbery; Zered, a brook East of the Dead Sea -- Zared, Zered. 2217, 2218. ...
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6939. Qidron -- perhaps "dusky," a wadi East of Jer.
... NASB Word Usage Kidron (11). Kidron. From qadar; dusky place; Kidron, a brook near
Jerusalem -- Kidron. see HEBREW qadar. 6938, 6939. Qidron. 6940 . ...
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5158b. nachal -- nachal
... 5158a, 5158b. nachal. 5159 . nachal. Transliteration: nachal Short Definition:
brook. Word Origin see nachal. 5158a, 5158b. nachal. 5159 . Strong's Numbers
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Library

Creatures that are Able to Dart their Thoughts into all Spaces Can ...
... THE FIFTH CENTURY 3 Creatures that are able to dart their thoughts into
all spaces can brook no limit or restraint. Creatures that ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/3 creatures that are able.htm

Elijah and the Widow's Son
... Then this message from Jehovah came to Elijah: "Go from here and hide yourself
near the Brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/elijah and the widows son.htm

Women who Saved a Nation
... Then I will draw out to you at the brook Kishon Sisera with his chariots and his
troops, and I will deliver him into your hands.'" Barak said to her, "If you ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/women who saved a nation.htm

The Greatest Trial on Record
... Our Redeemer was hurried along the road which crosses the brook Kedron.
A second time he was made like unto David, who passed over ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 9 1863/the greatest trial on record.htm

Elijah Fed by Ravens.
... "Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook
Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou ...
/.../anonymous/mother stories from the old testament/elijah fed by ravens.htm

Elijah the Great Heart of Israel.
... Because he would seek to destroy Elijah, the Lord told His prophet to go to the
brook Cherith that ran into the Jordan, and there He would take care of him. ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxvii elijah the great.htm

A Prophet's Strange Providers
... according to my word.2. And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 3. Get thee
hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a prophets strange providers.htm

The Question of the Tall Gentleman as to Whether Diamond could ...
... He met a little brook singing a song. He said, "Little brook, you are going
wrong. ... And the song-singing, sing-songing forest brook. ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 20 the question of.htm

Call to China and Voyage Hence
... He went to a private school under the care of a Mr. Morton at the village of Bound
Brook, two miles from home, and generally stood at the head of his class. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/ii call to china and.htm

The Next Night Diamond was Seated by his Open Window...
... "I am going to take you along this little brook," said North Wind. "I am not
wanted for anything else to-night, so I can give you a treat.". ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 37 the next night.htm

ATS Bible Dictionary

Brook

See RIVER.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A torrent.

(1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha.

(2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Numbers 34:5; Joshua 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Numbers 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3).

(3.) In Isaiah 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

2. (v. t.) To use; to enjoy.

3. (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.

4. (v. t.) To deserve; to earn.

Thesaurus

Brook (75 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To use; to enjoy. 3. (vt) To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate;
as, young men can not brook restraint. ... BESOR, THE BROOK. ...
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Kanah (3 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Reedy; brook of reeds. (1.) A stream forming the
boundary between Ephraim and Manasseh, from the Mediterranean ...
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Wadi (11 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Numbers 34:5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook
of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. (See NIV). ...
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Ravine (26 Occurrences)
... by Medeba; (DBY). Joshua 16:8 From Tappuah the border went along westward
to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the ...
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Kidron (11 Occurrences)
... This valley is known in Scripture only by the name "the brook Kidron." David crossed
t. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. KIDRON. ... KIDRON, THE BROOK. ...
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Willows (5 Occurrences)
... The Brook of the Willows (Isaiah 15:7) must have been some stream running from Moab
to the Jordan or Dead Sea. ... EWG Masterman. WILLOWS, THE BROOK OF THE. ...
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Zered (3 Occurrences)
... Zared, luxuriance; willow bush, a brook or valley communicating with the Dead Sea
near its southern extremity (Numbers 21:12; Deuteronomy 2:14). It is call. ...
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Besor (3 Occurrences)
... Cold, a ravine or brook in the extreme south-west of Judah, where 200 of David's
men stayed behind because they were faint, while the other 400 pursued the ...
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Cherith (2 Occurrences)
... A cutting; separation; a gorge, a torrent-bed or winter-stream, a "brook," in whose
banks the prophet Elijah hid himself during the early part of the three ...
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Outgoings (21 Occurrences)
... YLT). Numbers 34:5 and the border hath turned round from Azmon to the brook
of Egypt, and its outgoings have been at the sea. (YLT). ...
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Bible Concordance

Brook (75 Occurrences)

John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT)

Genesis 32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 23:40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

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 staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
(KJV WBS YLT)

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.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Numbers 34:5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 2:13 "Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered." We went over the brook Zered.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 2:14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 2:24 Rise ye, journey and pass over the brook Arnon; see, I have given into thy hand Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land; begin to possess, and stir up thyself against him 'in' battle.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which 'is' by the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which 'is' by the brook, even unto Gilead there hath not been a city which 'is' too high for us; the whole hath Jehovah our God given before us.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 2:37 Only, unto the land of the sons of Ammon thou hast not drawn near, any part of the brook Jabbok, and cities of the hill-country, and anything which Jehovah our God hath 'not' commanded.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 3:8 And we take, at that time, the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorite, which is beyond the Jordan, from the brook Arnon unto mount Hermon;
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 3:12 And this land we have possessed, at that time; from Aroer, which 'is' by the brook Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I have given to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite;
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 4:48 from Aroer, which 'is' by the edge of the brook Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which 'is' Hermon --
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 9:21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Joshua 12:1 And these 'are' kings of the land whom the sons of Israel have smitten, and possess their land, beyond the Jordan, at the sun-rising, from the brook Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain eastward.
(YLT)

Joshua 12:2 Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer which 'is' on the border of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, and unto Jabok the brook, the border of the Bene-Ammon;
(YLT NAS)

Joshua 13:9 from Aroer, which 'is' on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which 'is' in the midst of the brook, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dihon,
(YLT)

Joshua 13:16 and the border is to them from Aroer, which 'is' on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which 'is' in the midst of the brook, and all the plain by Medeba,
(YLT)

Joshua 15:4 and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Joshua 15:7 and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En-rogel;
(See JPS YLT)

Joshua 15:47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Joshua 16:8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Joshua 17:9 The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Joshua 19:11 Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

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 him into thy hand.
(See JPS YLT)

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 the Gentiles, unto the river Kishon.
(See JPS YLT)

Judges 5:21 The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.
(See JPS YLT)

1 Samuel 17:40 He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet. His sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 30:21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 15:23 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 people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 17:13 And if unto a city he is gathered, then they have caused all Israel to bear unto that city ropes, and we have drawn it unto the brook till that there hath not been found there even a stone.'
(YLT)

2 Samuel 17:20 Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 24:5 and they pass over the Jordan, and encamp in Aroer, on the right of the city that 'is' in the midst of the brook of Gad, and unto Jazer,
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1 Kings 2:37 For on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall surely die: your blood shall be on your own head."
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1 Kings 8:65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
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1 Kings 15:13 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
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1 Kings 17:3 "Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
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1 Kings 17:4 It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."
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1 Kings 17:5 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
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1 Kings 17:6 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
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1 Kings 17:7 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
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1 Kings 18:40 Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let one of them escape!" They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
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2 Kings 10:33 from the Jordan, at the sun-rising, the whole land of Gilead, of the Gadite, and the Reubenite, and the Manassahite (from Aroer, that 'is' by the brook Arnon), even Gilead and Bashan.
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2 Kings 23:6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
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2 Kings 23:12 The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
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2 Kings 24:7 The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
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1 Chronicles 13:5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.
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2 Chronicles 7:8 So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
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2 Chronicles 15:16 Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
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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 wilderness of Jeruel.
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2 Chronicles 29:16 The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
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2 Chronicles 30:14 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 Kidron.
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2 Chronicles 32:4 So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
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Nehemiah 2:15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
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Job 6:15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
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Job 40:22 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
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Psalms 74:15 Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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Psalms 83:9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
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Psalms 110:7 He will drink of the brook in the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
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Proverbs 18:4 The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
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Isaiah 15:7 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
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Isaiah 19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
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Isaiah 19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
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Isaiah 23:3 And in many waters 'is' the seed of Sihor, The harvest of the brook 'is' her increase, And she is a mart of nations.
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Isaiah 23:10 Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.
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Isaiah 27:12 It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
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Isaiah 57:6 Among the smooth things of a brook 'is' thy portion, They -- they 'are' thy lot, Also to them thou hast poured out an oblation, Thou hast caused a present to ascend, For these things am I comforted?
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Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?
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Jeremiah 31:40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.
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Ezekiel 47:19 The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.
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Ezekiel 48:28 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea.
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Amos 6:14 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."
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Brook

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