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 26 word senses
- אגם (Noun) swamp, marsh
- אוד (Proper name) Aude (a river in France)
- אוקיינוס (Noun) an 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 of Paradise; also a valley (or pool) near Jerusalem.
- הים הכספי (Proper name) Caspian Sea (a lake between Europe and Asia).
- הים התיכון (Proper name) the Mediterranean Sea
- זרם (Noun) a stream
- חידקל (Proper name) Tigris (river in Southwest Asia)
- יאור (Noun) A river, stream, or canal, especially in Egypt, especially the Nile.
- ים (Noun) sea, ocean
- ים (Noun) west (cardinal direction)
- ים המלח (Proper name) Dead Sea (a highly saline lake in Israel, Palestine and Jordan)
- ים סוף (Proper name) Red Sea.
- 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)
- מישיגן (Proper name) Lake Michigan (a lake in the United States)
- נהר (Noun) river (especially the Nile, Euphrates, etc.)
- נחל (Noun) a valley
- נילוס (Proper name) Nile
- נמל (Noun) Port, seaport.
- פישון (Proper name) Pishon, a river of Eden.
- פלג (Noun) stream, brook, tributary
- פלג (Proper name) a male given name, equivalent to English Peleg
- פלג (Proper name) Peleg (one of the two sons of Eber.)
- תעלה (Noun) a ditch, a moat, a canal
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