Channel
Channel, the rendering in the Auth. Vers. in certain passages of two Hebrews words: אָפַיק, aphik´, the bed of a brook (2Sa 22:16; Ps 18:15; Isa 8:7; elsewhere "stream," "river," etc.); and שַׁבֹּלֶת, shibbo´leth, a stream (Isa 27:12; "flood," Ps 69:2,15).