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Nave Topical Bible
• River
Thompson Chain Reference
• Rivers
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• River
• Nile, River Flood
• Adraitic Sea & Ahava River
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Rivers
• Nile, the River
• Jordan, the River
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• River
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Rivers of Judah
• Rivers of Damascus
• Rivers of Babylon
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• River of Egypt
• River
• Rehoboth by the River
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Tigris River
• Rivers and Waterways in the Bible
• River of Egypt
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• River of Egypt
• River
• Egypt, River
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• River (2)
• River
King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• River of Egypt
• River
• Kishon, River of, Kison
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Sisters of Saint Joseph of Le Puy (Fall River)
• River, Jordan
• River Brethren
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
• River of Egypt The
• River
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• River
• River; Wadi
Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
• Rivered
• River
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• River
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Acre River
• Alabama River
• Albany River, Canada
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Egypt, Brook (River, Stream) of
• Rehoboth by the River
• River
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Adonis River
• Egypt Brook or River of.
• Four Rivers
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• East River
• Fraser River
• James River
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Fall River
• Thompson River Indians
• Three Rivers
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Lexicons
• ܢܰܗܪܳܐ
• ποταμός
• אֻבָל
• אָפִיק , אָפִיק
• יְאֹר
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The three principal rivers referred to in scripture are the Nile, the Jordan, and the Euphrates. The word employed for the Nile is yeor, 'a fosse or channel'; for the Jordan and the Euphrates the word used is nahar, 'a river' always supplied with water. The other streams in Palestine, though called 'rivers,' as the Arnon, are torrents running in valleys; for the most part they have water only in the winter, and are then often impassable: these are described by the word nachal. For the symbolical river that Ezekiel saw issuing from the house this latter word is used. Ezekiel 47:5-12 .

God will make His people drink of the river of His pleasures, Psalm 36:8; here the word is nachal. In Psalm 46:4 it is nahar. "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God." It will never run dry.