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Brook
Meaning: a torrent
Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok,
etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha.
It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or
wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3).
In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.
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