the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Strong's #5140 - נָזַל
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- Strong
- to flow, distil, flow forth or down, trickle, drop
- (Qal)
- to flow
- streams, floods (participle)
- to distil
- to flow
- (Hiphil) to cause to flow
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2387) lzn (נזל NZL) AC: Flow CO: Stream AB: ?: [from: lz- as a shaking]
V) lzn (נזל NZL) - Flow: To flow water, or to flow like water. KJV (16): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Participle) flood, flow, stream, pour, distil, melt, drop, waters, pour, gush - Strongs: H5140 (נָזַל)
af1) elznm (מנזלה MNZLH) - Milky way: As a flowing river in the night sky. [df: hlzm] KJV (1): planet - Strongs: H4208 (מַזָּל)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect נָָֽזְלוּ Judges 5:5; Imperfect יִזַּל Numbers 24:7 etc; Participle נֹזְלִים Exodus 15:8 +, etc.; —
1 flow subject water, Numbers 24:7 (JE); Psalm 147:18; compare Jeremiah 18:14; subject clouds, Job 36:28 followed by rain as accusative of material Ges§ 117z ("" רעף and, Job 36:27, זקק), compare Jeremiah 9:17 (of eyelids); so .fig. Isaiah 45:8 followed by צֶדֶק ("" רעף); of mountains (i.e. their torrents) Judges 5:6 according to ᵑ9 Ew GFM and others, but see I. זלל especially participle as substantive, = streams, floods, Exodus 15:8 ("" מים, תהום of Red Sea); Psalm 78:44 ("" יְאֹר); for drinking Psalm 78:16 ("" מים כַנהרות, תהום Psalm 78:15), Proverbs 5:15 out of well ("" מים); for irrigation Isaiah 44:3 ("" מים); figurative of Shulamite מִןלְֿבָנוֺן׳נ Song of Solomon 4:15 ("" מעין גנים, באר מים)
2 distil, of spices בְּשָׂמִים Song of Solomon 4:16; figurative of words, like dew Deuteronomy 32:2 ("" ערף).
Hiph`il Perfect lyZIhi Isaiah 48:21 cause to flow, water from rock ("" זוב). — See also I. זלל.
נזם (√ of following; meaning unknown).
נָזַל fut. יִזַּל
(1) to flow, to run, Numbers 24:7; Psalms 147:18. Part. pl. נוֹזְלִים fluids, poet. used of streams, Exodus 15:8; Isaiah 44:3; Jeremiah 18:14; Psalms 78:16; Proverbs 5:15. Figuratively applied to speech, Deuteronomy 32:2, “my speech shall flow like dew;” used of a sweet odour pervading the air, Song of Solomon 4:16.-Like other verbs of flowing (see הָלַךְ No. 4, Heb. Gram. § 135, note 1)
(2) it is construed with an acc. of whatever flows down plentifully, Jeremiah 9:17, וְעַפְעַפֵּינוּ יִזְּלוּ־מַיִם “and our eyelids flow down with water;” Isaiah 45:8; Job 36:28.
(3) From the Arabic usage (نزل), to descend; also to turn aside to lodge, to dwell; whence מַזָּלוֹת.-Note נָֽזְלוּ Judges 5:5, is for נָזֹלּוּ Niphal, from זָלַל, which see.
Hiphil הִזִּיל causat. of No. 1, to cause to flow, Isaiah 48:21. The same form is found under זָלַל.