(1.) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7).
(2.) The “chanelbone” (Job 31:22 marg.), properly “tube” or “shaft,” an old term for the collar-bone.
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
Place
Channel
Hebrew & Greek words with this meaning
- H2975יְאֹרyᵉʼôra 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
- H8585תְּעָלָהtᵉʻâlâha channel (into which water is raised for irrigation); also a bandage or plaster (as placed upon a wound)
- H6388פֶּלֶגpelega rill (i.e. small channel of water, as in irrigation)
- H7298רַהַטrahaṭa channel or watering-box; by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines)
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