Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
8 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “rivers” →
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
