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<p> '''''chan´el''''' ( אפיק , <i> ''''''āphı̄ḳ''''' </i> (root אפק , <i> ''''''āphaḳ''''' </i> , "to hold or contain," "to be strong"; compare Arabic <i> ''''''afaḳ''''' </i> "to overcome" and <i> ''''''āfiḳ''''' </i> , "preëminent"); שבּלת , <i> '''''shibbōleth''''' </i> ( שׁבל , <i> '''''shābhal''''' </i> , "to go," "to go up or grow," "to flow"; compare Arabic <i> ''''''asbal''''' </i> , "to flow," "to rain," "to put forth ears"; <i> '''''sabalat''''' </i> , "an ear of grain"; <i> '''''sabı̄l''''' </i> , "a road," "a public fountain")): In Job 12:21; Job 40:18; Job 41:15 we have <i> ''''''āphı̄ḳ''''' </i> in the sense of "strong" (but compare Job 40:18 , the Revised Version (British and American) "tubes" (of brass)). Elsewhere it is translated "river," "brook," "stream," "channel" or "watercourse." <i> '''''Shibbōleth''''' </i> (in the dialect of [[Ephraim]] <i> '''''ṣibbōleth''''' </i> ( Judges 12:6 )) means "an ear of grain" ( [[Genesis]] 41:5; Rth 2:2; Isaiah 17:5 ) or "a flood of water" ( [[Psalm]] 69:2 , Psalm 69:15; Isaiah 27:12 ). In 2 Samuel 22:16 (compare Psalm 18:15 ) we have: </p> <p> "Then the channels of the sea appeared, </p> <p> The foundations of the world were laid bare, </p> <p> By the rebuke of Yahweh, </p> <p> At the blast of the breath of his nostrils." </p> <p> This is reminiscent of "fountains of the deep" ( Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:2; Proverbs 8:28 ). It is a question how far we should attribute to these ancient writers a share in modern notions of oceanography, but the idea seems to be that of a withdrawal of the water of the ocean, and the laying bare of submarine declivities and channels such as we know to exist as the result of erosion during a previous period of elevation, when the given portion of ocean floor was dry land. </p> <p> The fact that many streams of [[Palestine]] flow only during the rainy season seems to be referred to in Job 6:15; and perhaps also in Psalm 126:4 . See [[Brook]]; [[River]] . </p> | |||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30900" /> == | |||
<li> The "chanelbone" ( Job 31:22 marg.), properly "tube" or "shaft," an old term for the collar-bone. <p> </p> <div> <p> [[Copyright]] StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated [[Bible]] Dictionary, [[Third]] Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Channel'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/c/channel.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li> | |||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_58832" /> == | |||
<p> CHANNEL, n. </p> <blockquote> 1. In a general sense, a passage a place of passing or flowing particularly, a water course. </blockquote> <blockquote> 2. The place where a river flows, including the whole breadth of the river. But more appropriately, the deeper part or hollow in which the principal current flows. </blockquote> <blockquote> 3. The deeper part of a strait, bay, or harbor, where the principal current flows, either of tide or fresh water, or which is the most convenient for the track of a ship. </blockquote> <blockquote> 4. That through which any thing passes means of passing, conveying, or transmitting as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. </blockquote> <blockquote> 5. A gutter or furrow in a column. </blockquote> <blockquote> 6. An arm of the sea a straight or narrow sea, between two continents, or between a continent and an isle as the British or Irish channel. </blockquote> <blockquote> 7. Channels of a ship. See Chain-wales. </blockquote> <p> CHANNEL, To form a channel to cut channels in to groove as, to channel a field or a column. </p> | |||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2274" /> == | |||
<p> '''''chan´el''''' ( אפיק , <i> ''''''āphı̄ḳ''''' </i> (root אפק , <i> ''''''āphaḳ''''' </i> , "to hold or contain," "to be strong"; compare Arabic <i> ''''''afaḳ''''' </i> "to overcome" and <i> ''''''āfiḳ''''' </i> , "preëminent"); שבּלת , <i> '''''shibbōleth''''' </i> ( שׁבל , <i> '''''shābhal''''' </i> , "to go," "to go up or grow," "to flow"; compare Arabic <i> ''''''asbal''''' </i> , "to flow," "to rain," "to put forth ears"; <i> '''''sabalat''''' </i> , "an ear of grain"; <i> '''''sabı̄l''''' </i> , "a road," "a public fountain")): In Job 12:21; Job 40:18; Job 41:15 we have <i> ''''''āphı̄ḳ''''' </i> in the sense of "strong" (but compare Job 40:18 , the Revised Version (British and American) "tubes" (of brass)). Elsewhere it is translated "river," "brook," "stream," "channel" or "watercourse." <i> '''''Shibbōleth''''' </i> (in the dialect of [[Ephraim]] <i> '''''ṣibbōleth''''' </i> ( Judges 12:6 )) means "an ear of grain" ( [[Genesis]] 41:5; Rth 2:2; Isaiah 17:5 ) or "a flood of water" ( [[Psalm]] 69:2 , Psalm 69:15; Isaiah 27:12 ). In 2 Samuel 22:16 (compare Psalm 18:15 ) we have: </p> <p> "Then the channels of the sea appeared, </p> <p> The foundations of the world were laid bare, </p> <p> By the rebuke of Yahweh, </p> <p> At the blast of the breath of his nostrils." </p> <p> This is reminiscent of "fountains of the deep" ( Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:2; Proverbs 8:28 ). It is a question how far we should attribute to these ancient writers a share in modern notions of oceanography, but the idea seems to be that of a withdrawal of the water of the ocean, and the laying bare of submarine declivities and channels such as we know to exist as the result of erosion during a previous period of elevation, when the given portion of ocean floor was dry land. </p> <p> The fact that many streams of [[Palestine]] flow only during the rainy season seems to be referred to in Job 6:15; and perhaps also in Psalm 126:4 . See [[Brook]]; [[River]] . </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_31515" /> == | |||
<p> the rendering in the Auth. Vers. in certain passages of two Hebrews words: </p> <p> אָפַיק , aphik ´, the bed of a brook ( 2 Samuel 22:16; Psalms 18:15; Isaiah 8:7; elsewhere "stream," "river," etc.); and שַׁבֹּלֶת, shibbo ´ leth, a stream ( Isaiah 27:12; "flood," Psalms 69:2; Psalms 69:15). </p> | |||
==References == | |||
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<ref name="term_30900"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/channel Channel from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_58832"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/channel Channel from King James Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_2274"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/channel Channel from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_31515"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/channel Channel from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | |||
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