אָפִיק (ʾāpîq) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning channel. It appears
19 times
in 7 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H650).
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 149a)
Range of meaning (TWOT 149a)channel; containing, tube, bed, valley, strong, hero; brook, mighty, river, scale, stream, strong piece
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
אָפִיקnoun, masculine: channel
channel (as holding, confining water; poetic)
Strong's H650אָפִיק: properly, containing, i.e. a tube; also a bed or valley of a stream; also a strong thing or a hero KJV:brook, channel, mighty, river, scale, stream, strong piece.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 149: אָפַקʾāpaq — hold, be strong; force, compel oneself; restrain oneself, refrain; contain, abstain; restrain