אָפִיק
a.phiq
channel
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "אָפִיק" (a.phiq) is defined as a "channel". This term describes a path or conduit for something to flow through. In the context of the 19 occurrences in the Bible, "a.phiq" likely refers to a physical channel, such as a river, stream, or watercourse. The significance of "a.phiq" lies in its association with natural features that facilitate the flow of water. This word may also imply a sense of passage or journey, as water flows through the channel. The repeated use of "a.phiq" in the Bible suggests its importance in the ancient profile of the land and its inhabitants.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
19 total occurrences across the text
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
Job 12:21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
Job 40:18His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.
Job 41:15Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
Psalms 18:15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
Psalms 126:4Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.
Song of Solomon 5:12His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
Isaiah 8:7now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
Ezekiel 6:3and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: “Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.
Ezekiel 32:6I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood, even to the mountains. The watercourses will be full of you.
Ezekiel 31:12Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Ezekiel 34:13I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Ezekiel 35:8I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.
Ezekiel 36:4therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
Ezekiel 36:6Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.”
Joel 1:20Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Joel 3:18It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.
2 Samuel 22:16Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.