brook Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
brook in Easton's Bible Dictionary
a torrent. (1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha. (2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3). (3.) In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.
brook in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
aphiquw. A torrent sweeping through a mountain gorge, in the poetical books alone. Yeor, the Nile canals, Isaiah 19:6-8; Isaiah 23:3; Isaiah 23:10, but general in Daniel 12:5-7. Mical, a rivulet (2 Samuel 17:20). Nachal, the torrent bed, and the torrent itself (Numbers 21:12; 1 Kings 17:3); the Arabic wady; Indian nullah; Greek cheimarrous.