Channel
Channel
the rendering in the Auth. Vers. in certain passages of two Hebrews words:
, aphik, the bed of a brook (2Sa 22:16; Psa 18:15; Isa 8:7; elsewhere “stream,” “river,” etc.); and , shibboleth, a stream (Isa 27:12; “flood,” Psa 69:2; Psa 69:15).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Channel
(1.) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7).
(2.) The “chanelbone” (Job 31:22 marg.), properly “tube” or “shaft,” an old term for the collar-bone.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Channel
chanel (, ‘aphk (root , ‘aphak, to hold or contain, to be strong; compare Arabic ‘afak to overcome and ‘afik, preminent); , shibboleth (, shabhal, to go, to go up or grow, to flow; compare Arabic ‘asbal, to flow, to rain, to put forth ears; sabalat, an ear of grain; sabl, a road, a public fountain)): In Job 12:21; Job 40:18; Job 41:15 we have ‘aphk in the sense of strong (but compare Job 40:18, the Revised Version (British and American) tubes (of brass)). Elsewhere it is translated river, brook, stream, channel or watercourse. Shibboleth (in the dialect of Ephraim sibboleth (Jdg 12:6)) means an ear of grain (Gen 41:5; Rth 2:2; Isa 17:5) or a flood of water (Psa 69:2, Psa 69:15; Isa 27:12). In 2Sa 22:16 (compare Psa 18:15) we have:
Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were laid bare,
By the rebuke of Yahweh,
At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
This is reminiscent of fountains of the deep (Gen 7:11; Gen 8:2; Pro 8:28). It is a question how far we should attribute to these ancient writers a share in modern notions of oceanography, but the idea seems to be that of a withdrawal of the water of the ocean, and the laying bare of submarine declivities and channels such as we know to exist as the result of erosion during a previous period of elevation, when the given portion of ocean floor was dry land.
The fact that many streams of Palestine flow only during the rainy season seems to be referred to in Job 6:15; and perhaps also in Psa 126:4. See BROOK; RIVER.