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title: יָבָל — watercourse · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָבָל (2988), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: watercourse. BDB 1906: watercourse, stream. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָבָל

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«יָבָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **watercourse** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 2988 · **BDB:** יָבָל

### Glosses

watercourses (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

watercourse [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2988/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

watercourse, stream [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2988/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] watercourse, stream (proposes conduit), as irrigating;—only pl. cstr. יִבְלֵי(־)מָ֑יִם Is 30:25 (‖ פְּלָגִים), 44:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (13 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָבָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2988/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 44:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.4/)

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וְצָמְח֖וּ בְּבֵ֣ין חָצִ֑יר כַּעֲרָבִ֖ים עַל־יִבְלֵי־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.spring.up in between herbage like poplars at watercourses of.water

*JPS 1917:* And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

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[Isaiah 30:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.25/)

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וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ עַל־כָּל־הַ֣ר גָּבֹ֗הַוְעַל֙ כָּל־גִּבְעָ֣ה נִשָּׂאָ֔ה פְּלָגִ֖ים יִבְלֵי־מָ֑יִם בְּיוֹם֙ הֶ֣רֶג רָ֔ב בִּנְפֹ֖ל מִגְדָּלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be on every mountain high and on every hill lifted.up streams watercourses of.water in a.day of.slaughter great when fall towers

*JPS 1917:* And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill streams and watercourses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

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