יאור

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
י־א־ר (y-ʾ-r)

From earlier *yoʔr-, borrowed from Egyptian

(jtrw, “river, the Nile”). The word was borrowed into Hebrew after the shift of Egyptian /t/ to /ʔ/, which is attested from the 18th Dynasty onward in the form of the alternative spelling jrw. Cognate with Demotic ⁠⁠⁠⁠ (yr, “river, canal”) and Coptic ⲉⲓⲟⲟⲣ (eioor, “canal”).

Pronunciation

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): [jŏˈʔoːr]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): [jeˈ(ʔ)oʁ]

Noun

יְאוֹר / יְאֹר • (ye'ór) m (plural indefinite יְאוֹרִים)

1. A river, stream, or canal, especially in Egypt, especially the Nile.

References

• H2975 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “יאור” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

• יאור on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he