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# נְחִירַיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5156

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

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

nostril [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5156/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָחִיר: nostril [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5156/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] nostril (appar. from above √, and not connected with Arabic نَحَرَ stab camel in wind-pipe, etc., Aramaic נְחַר kill by stabbing in nose or throat, cf. NH נָחַר perforate, kill by stabbing, so that נָחִיר would = perforation, and נחר snort wd. be denom.);—only du. sf. מִנְּחִירָיו יֵצֵא עָשָׁן Jb 41:12 (of crocodile).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 41:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.12/#tree)

מִ֭נְּחִירָיו יֵצֵ֣א עָשָׁ֑ן כְּד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְאַגְמֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* from nostrils its it.goes.forth smoke like a.cooking.pot blown.upon and bulrush\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5156.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5156/): 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).