Water

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Small waterfall on the Jordan River, Upper Galilee

Key Words

Word/Phrase Gloss Ref.
פַּלְגֵי מַיִם "water channels" Ps. 1:3

Ancient Setting

Target Domains

  • In Psalm 1, the image of water maps onto God's law, which ‘nourishes’ the person who meditates on it. Or, perhaps more precisely, God’s Torah is like the ground around the river that the tree is planted in – the righteous are planted in it through their continuous remembrance and study of it.

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