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# נָהַר

Biblical Hebrew

**shine** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָהַר²: vb. shine, beam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shine, beam (Aramaic) (NH id., especially in deriv.; Assyrian nûru, light, DlHWB 440; Arabic نَهِرٌ daytime, نَهَارٌ day, daytime; Aramaic ܢܗܰܪ shine, נְהַר id.; Palm. נהירא illustrious, e.g. VogPalm. No. 22);— Pf. 2 fs. consec. וְנָהַרְתְּ Is 60:5; 3 pl. נָהָ֑רוּ ψ 34:6;—beam, be radiant, fig. of joy: תִּרְאִי וְנ׳ Is 60:5, הִבִּיטוּ אֵלָיו וְנ׳ ψ 34:6 (read הַבּ׳, וּנְהָרוּ, v. 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 Che Bae Du).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they are radiant (1); they will be radiant (1); you will be radiant (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 34:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.6/#tree)

הִבִּ֣יטוּ אֵלָ֣יו וְנָהָ֑רוּ וּ֝פְנֵיהֶ֗ם אַל־יֶחְפָּֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* people.look to him and they.are.radiant and faces their not may.they.be.abashed

*JPS 1917:* They looked unto Him, and were radiant; and their faces shall never be abashed.

[Isaiah 60:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.60.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.60.5/#tree)

אָ֤ז תִּרְאִי֙ וְנָהַ֔רְתְּ וּפָחַ֥ד וְרָחַ֖ב לְבָבֵ֑ךְ כִּֽי־יֵהָפֵ֤ךְ עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ הֲמ֣וֹן יָ֔ם חֵ֥יל גּוֹיִ֖ם יָבֹ֥אוּ לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* then you.will.see and you.will.be.radiant and it.will.be.in.awe and it.will.be.enlarged heart your (dm) it.will.be.turned.over on you \[the\].abundance of.\[the\].sea \[the\].wealth of.nations they.will.come to you

*JPS 1917:* Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall throb and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d4_5b7_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).