brook, flood, river, stream
Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(banked). In Hebrew sense, a large flowing stream, rivulet, ravine, valley, or wady. “River of Egypt” is the Nile (Gen. 15:18; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4,47; 1 Kings 8:65; 2 Kings 24:7). “The river” is the Euphrates (Gen. 31:21; Ex. 23:31).
“Brook” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
Four Hebrew words are translated “brook.”
1. aphiq (Psa. 42:1), water held in by banks, translated also “channel.”
2. yeor (Isa. 19:6-8), a river, canal, fosse: applied to the Nile in Exodus 1:22, &c.
3. mikal (2 Sam. 17:20), a small brook.
4. nachal (Gen. 32:23), a mountain torrent often dry in summer, and thus often disappointing, as in Job 6:15. Such are numerous in Palestine. (This is the word in all the passages where “brook” occurs in the Old Testament except those above enumerated.) The same is called in the New Testament, χείμαρρος, “winter flowing” (John 18:1). Its Eastern name is wady.
Wady Zerka – The Jabbok
“River” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
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 (Psa. 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.
Nile—Luxor
Ford of the Zarqa – Jordan River
Euphrates River – Hilla
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
of Egyptian origin; a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria
KJV Usage:
brook, flood, river, stream