Definition of Nahal

1. a military agricultural settlement in Israel [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nahal

naggingly
naggings
naggins
naggy
nagi
nagmaal
nagmaals
nagor
nagors
nags
nagware
nagyag-ite
nagyagite
nagyagites
nah
nahal (current term)
nahals
nahcolite
nahpoite
nahualism
naiad
naiad family
naiades
naiads
naiant
naid
naif
naifer
naifest
naifly

Literary usage of Nahal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physical Geography of the Holy Land by Edward Robinson (1865)
"A third Hebrew word is nahal (?1?) the primary idea of which is " a flowing," and then " place of flowing." Hence it is put in a general sense for a flowing ..."

2. A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs: Derived Entirely from the Monuments by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Henry Danby Seymour (1881)
"... been lately suggested with great probability, it should be derived from the Semitic word Nahar or nahal, which has the general signification of ' river. ..."

3. Jerusalem: The Topography, Economics and History from the Earliest Times to by George Adam Smith (1907)
"... the New Testament.2 It is in this sense that we must take the Hebrew term nahal as applied to the Kidron in the Old Testament.3 Translated brook in our ..."

4. Select Works of S. Ephrem the Syrian: Translated Out of the Original Syriac by Ephraem (1847)
"nahal scorned them. He then perished by 'a at this day there is the ... Some see notorious it was that David was to be the character of nahal in Ps. xiv. ..."

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