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Four Hebrew words are translated 'brook.'
1. aphiq, Ps. 42: 1: water held in by banks, translated also 'channel.'
2. yeor, Isa. 19: 6-8, a river, canal, fosse: applied to the Nile in Ex. 1: 22, etc.
3. mikal, 2 Sam. 17: 20, a small brook.
4. nachal, Gen. 32: 23, etc., a mountain torrent often dry in summer, and thus often disappointing, as in Job 6: 15. Such are numerous in Palestine. (This is the word in all the passages where 'brook' occurs in the O.T. except those above enumerated.) The same is called in the N.T. χείμαρρος, 'winter flowing.' John 18: 1. Its Eastern name is wady.