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Habakkuk 3:8
“Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5104 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
- Derivation
- from H5102 (נָהַר);
- KJV renderings
- flood, river.
- Grammar
- הֲ — particle (interrogative)
- בִ — preposition
- נְהָרִים֙ — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 119 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:10Genesis 2:13Genesis 2:14Genesis 2:14Genesis 15:18
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָהָר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.