Difference between revisions of "Channel"

<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>

</references>