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# נִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5214

**break up** — used 2 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

break up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5214/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִיר²: vb. break up, freshly till [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5214/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. break up, freshly till;— Imv. mpl. נִ֫ירוּ, c. acc. cogn. נִיר Ho 10:12 Je 4:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: plow (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 4:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.3/#tree)

כִּי־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהֹוָ֗ה לְאִ֤ישׁ יְהוּדָה֙ וְלִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם נִ֥ירוּ לָכֶ֖ם נִ֑יר וְאַֽל־תִּזְרְע֖וּ אֶל־קוֹצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Yahweh to the.man of.Judah and to Jerusalem plow for yourselves unplowed.ground and do.not sow to thorns

*JPS 1917:* For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up for you a fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

[Hosea 10:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.10.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.10.12/#tree)

זִרְע֨וּ לָכֶ֤ם לִצְדָקָה֙ קִצְר֣וּ לְפִי־חֶ֔סֶד נִ֥ירוּ לָכֶ֖ם נִ֑יר וְעֵת֙ לִדְר֣וֹשׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה עַד־יָב֕וֹא וְיֹרֶ֥ה צֶ֖דֶק לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* sow (for yourselves (to) righteousness reap (to).a mouth of.loyalty plow (for yourselves unplowed.ground and \[it.is\].time to seek (et) Yahweh until he.will.come and he.will.rain.down righteousness for you

*JPS 1917:* Sow to yourselves according to righteousness, reap according to mercy, break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and cause righteousness to rain upon you.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5214.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5214/): 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).