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# נְהֹור

Biblical Aramaic

**light** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

light [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d4_5b9_5d5_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְהִיר: n.m. light [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d4_5b9_5d5_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. light (𝔗 נְהוֹרָא, Syriac ܢܽܘܗܪܳܐ; v. BH II. נהר);—emph. נהירא Kt, נְהוֹרָא Qr (cf. 𝔗 Syriac; NöLCB 1896, 703) Dn 2:22.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.22/#tree)

ה֛וּא גָּלֵ֥א עַמִּיקָתָ֖א וּמְסַתְּרָתָ֑א יָדַע֙ מָ֣ה בַחֲשׁוֹכָ֔א וּנְהוֹרָ֖א עִמֵּ֥הּ שְׁרֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* he \[is\].revealing (the).deep \[things\] and.(the) hidden \[things\] \[he.is\].knowing what? \[is\].in the darkness and the light with him \[is\].dwelling

*JPS 1917:* He revealeth the deep and secret things; He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with Him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d4_5b9_5d5_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d4_5b9_5d5_5e8/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).