Hebrew word senses marked with place category "Bodies of water"
Parent categories: Landforms, Water, Earth, Places, Liquids, Nature, Names, Matter, Chemistry, Sciences
Subcategories: Lakes, Rivers, Seas, Straits
Total 33 word senses
- אגם (Noun) reed, bulrush
- אוד (Proper name) Aude (a river in the Aude department, France); Aude (a department of Occitanie, France)
- אוקיינוס (Noun) ocean
- אוקיינוס הקרח הצפוני (Proper name) the Arctic Ocean
- בוספורוס (Proper name) Bosphorus (The narrow strait beside Istanbul, Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, the northern end of the Turkish Straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean)
- גיחון (Proper name) Gihon (a river issuing out of the Garden of Eden)
- האוקיינוס האטלנטי (Proper name) the Atlantic Ocean
- האוקיינוס הדרומי (Proper name) the Southern Ocean
- האוקיינוס ההודי (Proper name) the Indian Ocean
- האוקיינוס השקט (Proper name) the Pacific Ocean
- הים הכספי (Proper name) Caspian Sea (A landlocked sea (properly a saline lake) between Eastern Europe and Asia, and the Earth’s largest inland body of water)
- הים הצפוני (Proper name) the North Sea
- הים השחור (Proper name) the Black Sea (an inland sea bound by Southeastern Europe in the west, Eastern Europe in the north and northeast, and Turkey in the south)
- הים התיכון (Proper name) the Mediterranean Sea (The sea between Europe and Africa)
- זרם (Noun) a religious or ideological movement
- חידקל (Proper name) Tigris (a river in Southwest Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq)
- יאור (Noun) A river, stream, or canal, especially in Egypt, especially the Nile.
- ים (Noun) sea
- ים המלח (Proper name) Dead Sea (a lake in the Middle East in Palestine and Jordan, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest land-based elevation on Earth)
- ים סוף (Proper name) Red Sea
- ירדן (Proper name) Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)
- ירקון (Noun) A greenfinch, a European greenfinch: a member of the species Chloris chloris of small songbirds in the finch family.
- כנרת (Proper name) Kinneret, Sea of Galilee (a lake in northern Israel, located next to the ancient city of Tiberias).
- מיסיסיפי (Proper name) Mississippi (a state of the United States); Mississippi (a major river in the United States, that flows from north-central Minnesota into the Gulf of Mexico)
- מיצר (Noun) strait, isthmus
- נהר (Verb) to surge
- נחל (Noun) a valley
- נילוס (Proper name) Nile (A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world)
- פישון (Proper name) Pishon (one of the four rivers in Eden)
- פלג (Proper name) a male given name, equivalent to English Peleg
- פרת (Proper name) Euphrates
- רון (Proper name) Rhone (A river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea)
- תעלה (Noun) a ditch, a moat, a canal
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