to flow
na.zal describes the flowing, pouring, or dripping movement of waters and other streamlike outflow in Scripture.
The supplied verses predominantly show movement or issuing forth like water: waters, streams, rain, dew, and water from a rock are described as flowing, pouring, or dripping. The same imagery is also used where mountains flow down and where garden spices flow.
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Flowing or issuing forth in streams or drops · dominant
Qal participles describe waters and streams in motion: in Exodus 15:8 the APB renders “the flowing waters congealed,” while Psalm 78:16 renders waters brought from the rock as flowing down “like rivers.” Qal imperfect forms likewise occur in clauses about water from buckets, clouds that pour out and drip, and waters that flow after melting; Judges 5:5 extends the picture to mountains that “flowed down.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB uses such wording as “flow,” “flowing,” “pour,” “drip,” and “drop.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the verses’ water-and-outflow imagery without fixing a separate English equivalent in every clause.