Bible Encyclopedia: Canal

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Strong's Hebrew

2975. yeor -- stream (of the Nile), stream, canal
... 2974, 2975. yeor. 2976 . stream (of the Nile), stream, canal. Transliteration:
yeor Phonetic Spelling: (yeh-ore') Short Definition: Nile. ...
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4760. murah -- crop or alimentary canal
... 4759b, 4760. murah. 4761 . crop or alimentary canal. Transliteration:
murah Phonetic Spelling: (moor-aw') Short Definition: crop. ...
/hebrew/4760.htm - 6k

6388. peleg -- a channel, canal
... 6387, 6388. peleg. 6389 . a channel, canal. Transliteration: peleg Phonetic
Spelling: (peh'-leg) Short Definition: streams. Word ...
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180. ubal -- a stream, river
... 179, 180. ubal. 181 . a stream, river. Transliteration: ubal Phonetic
Spelling: (oo-bawl') Short Definition: canal. Word Origin ...
/hebrew/180.htm - 6k

Library

The First Theban Empire
... The principality comprised the territory lying between the Nile and the Bahr Yusuf,
from the above-mentioned two villages to the Harabshent Canal"a district ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

Preparations for the Invasion of Greece.
... march of his expedition."Former shipwreck of Mardonius."Terrible gale."Destruction
of Mardonius's fleet at Mount Athos."Plan of a canal."The Greeks ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter iv preparations for the.htm

Illustrations
... A fair wind, at sunset, on the lake 45 16. A view on the grand canal 49 17. ... View
on the Po-yang lake 116 29. A village on the grand canal 121 30. ...
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At the Well
... There was no thirst in the Delta. Nowhere did the capillary, the irrigation canal,
fail to reach, even now in the season of desolation and loss. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxxvii at the well.htm

Expatriation
... He dismounted and, leading his horse some distance from the road, into the fringe
of water-sprouts which lined the canal, picketed him within shade, out of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xlii expatriation.htm

And So for Nearly Twenty Years He Continued Training Himself in ...
... But when he was obliged to cross the Arsenoitic Canal [1018] "and the occasion of
it was the visitation of the brethren"the canal was full of crocodiles. ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/life of antony section 14.htm

Letter cccxxxix. Basil to Libanius.
... Arist., Rhet. i.[v. 14. [3273] The story that Xerxes had made a canal through the
isthmus of Athos was supposed to be an instance of gross exaggeration. cf. ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter cccxxxix basil to libanius.htm

Bishop Gaudentius Said: These Things Wholesomely, Duly, and Fitly ...
... and public highways, or rather "in cities which are on the public highways, or Canals,'
by which they that pass go without labour, as in a canal or aqueduct ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon xx bishop gaudentius said .htm

Voyage to India.
... route by the Cape of Good Hope has been abandoned for passengers for many years,
and now Bombay is reached by the Straits of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal in a ...
/.../life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter i voyage to india.htm

The Traitors
... Gathering his robes about him with peculiar grace, he went through the grass toward
a low, capacious tent, pitched by a trickling branch of the great canal. ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

2. (n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

Thesaurus

Canal (6 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals
of the ear. Multi-Version Concordance Canal (6 Occurrences). ...
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Persians (6 Occurrences)
... HISTORY 1. Cyrus 2. Capture of Babylon 3. Cambyses 4. Pseudo-Smerdis 5. Darius I
6. Darius' Suez Canal 7. Xerxes I 8. Artaxerxes II 9. Xerxes II 10. ...
/p/persians.htm - 20k

Euphrates (36 Occurrences)
... From Hit an artificial canal conducts water along the western edge of the alluvial
plain to the Persian Gulf, a distance of about 500 miles. ...
/e/euphrates.htm - 26k

Lock (6 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. 5. (n.) The barrier
or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. ...
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Forum (1 Occurrence)
... Its importance as a highway station is due chiefly to the canal which ran by the
side of the road from there to within a short distance of Tarracina (at the ...
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Pithom (1 Occurrence)
... satisfactorily identified with Tell-el-Maskhuta, about 12 miles west of Ismailia,
and 20 east of Tel-el-Kebir, on the southern bank of the present Suez Canal. ...
/p/pithom.htm - 12k

Pharaohnecoh
... In order to secure a combination of his fleets, he conceived the idea of reopening
the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea which had been originally ...
/p/pharaohnecoh.htm - 11k

Pharaoh-necoh (3 Occurrences)
... In order to secure a combination of his fleets, he conceived the idea of reopening
the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea which had been originally ...
/p/pharaoh-necoh.htm - 12k

Persian (4 Occurrences)
... Naqsh i Rustam, etc., and one at Suez, the latter mentioning his conquest of Egypt
and the construction of the first (?) Suez canal: Adam niyashtayam imam ...
/p/persian.htm - 45k

Chebar (8 Occurrences)
... the Israelites were removed by the Assyrians (2 Kings 17:6). An opinion that has
much to support it is that the "Chebar" was the royal canal of Nebuchadnezzar ...
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Bible Concordance

Canal (6 Occurrences)

Ezra 8:15 I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
(See NIV)

Ezra 8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
(See NIV)

Ezra 8:31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
(See NIV)

Daniel 8:2 I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
(See NAS NIV)

Daniel 8:3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
(See NAS NIV)

Daniel 8:6 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.
(See NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Canal

Related Terms

Persians (6 Occurrences)

Euphrates (36 Occurrences)

Lock (6 Occurrences)

Forum (1 Occurrence)

Pithom (1 Occurrence)

Pharaohnecoh

Pharaoh-necoh (3 Occurrences)

Persian (4 Occurrences)