Flow
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
(2): ( v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
(3): ( v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
(4): ( v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
(5): ( v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
(6): ( v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
(7): ( v. i.) To rise, as the tide; - opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
(8): ( v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
(9): ( v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
(10): ( v. t.) To cover with varnish.
(11): ( n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
(12): ( n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
(13): ( n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
(14): ( n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
(15): imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
(16): ( n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; - called also flow moss and flow bog.
King James Dictionary [2]
Flow, L fluo, contracted from fugo, for it forms fluri, fuctum. In one case, the word would agree with the root of blow, L. flo in the other, with the root of fly.
1. To move along an inclined plane, or on descending ground, by the operation of gravity, and with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid. A solid body descends or moves in mass, as a ball or a wheel but in the flowing of liquid substances, and others consisting of very fine particles, there is a constant change of the relative position of some parts of the substance, as in the case with a stream of water, of quicksilver, and of sand. Particles at the bottom and sides of the stream, being somewhat checked by friction, move slower than those in the middle and near the surface of the current. Rivers flow from springs and lakes tears flow from the eyes. 2. To melt to become liquid.
That the mountains might flow down at they presence.
Isaiah 64 .
3. To proceed to issue. Evils flow from different sources. Wealth flows from industry and economy. All our blessings flow from divine bounty 4. To abound to have in abundance.
In that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk. Joel 3 .
5. To be full to be copious as flowing cups or goblets. 6. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperity as a flowing period flowing numbers. 7. To be smooth, as composition or utterance. The orator has a flowing tongue.
Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
8. To hang loose and waving as a flowing mantle flowing locks.
The imperial purple flowing in his train.
9. To rise, as the tide opposed to ebb. The tide flows twice in twenty four hours. 10. To move in the arteries and veins of the body to circulate, as blood. 11. To issue, as rays or beams of light.
Light flows from the sun.
12. To move in a stream, as air.
FLOW, To cover with water to overflow to inundate. The low grounds along the river are annually flowed.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"to flow," is used figuratively in John 7:38 of the Holy Spirit, acting in and through the believer.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Joel 3:18 (a) This is a picture of the abundance of GOD's blessings poured out on the people from the living GOD when the Holy Spirit is loved, honored and trusted. (See also Exodus 3:8; Exodus 13:5; Leviticus 20:24; Joshua 5:6; Ezekiel 20:6).
