Bible word study

Yeor (Strong’s H2975): Meaning in the Bible

Yeor (יְאֹר) is the Hebrew word numbered H2975 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria. In the King James Bible it is translated brook, flood, river, stream..

• Original wordיְאֹר
• Transliterationyᵉʼôr
• Pronunciationyeh-ore'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH2975
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. of Egyptian origin;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yeor appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yeor (H2975) stands behind 64 English renderings in 48 verses across 12 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Exodus (25), Isaiah (10), Ezekiel (9).

How the King James Bible renders Yeor, by count

• river35 of 64 (55 percent)
• rivers18 of 64 (28 percent)
• brooks5 of 64 (8 percent)
• flood5 of 64 (8 percent)
• streams1 of 64 (2 percent)

Three places to read Yeor

• Genesis 41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
• Exodus 7:25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.
• Isaiah 37:25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yeor in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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