H5158 – nachal – נַחַל – a wadi; fig. a stream, valley

Strong’s ID:: H5158
Hebrew Word:: נַחַל
Transliteration:: nachal
Pronunciation:: nakh’-al
Part of Speech:: masculine noun
Etymology:: from H5157
Usage Count:: 141
Search:: Find “nachal” in the Bible (Old Testament)

Equip God’s People Hebrew Lexicon

1) a wadi
2) figuratively: a stream
3) figuratively: a valley

Word Picture:

While the Hebrew word “nachal” can sometimes carry the sense of a general stream or brook, a wadi is a stream that floods in the rainy season and dries up in the heat of summer. Due to the precarious nature of a wadi, it carries the sense of being dangerous and unreliable. By this same token, it is used synonymously to represent a valley during that dry season.

Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon

or (feminine) נַחְלָה nachlâh (Psalm 124:4), nakh’-law; or נַחֲלָה nachălâh (Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:28), nakh-al-aw’; from H5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine):—brook, flood, river, stream, valley.