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# נִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5215

**the tillable** — 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

the tillable [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5215/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִיר³: the tillable, untilled fallow ground [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5215/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] the tillable, untilled or fallow ground;—נ׳ abs. as acc. cogn. נִירוּ לָכֶם נִ֑יר Ho 10:12; Je 4:3 till you the untilled ground (fig. of unaccustomed moral action); cstr. only רָב־אֹכֶל נִיר רָאשִׁים Pr 13:23 abundant food (yields) the fallow ground of poor men (i.e. with י׳’s blessing).—i. נִיר v. נור.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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: unplowed ground (2); \[the\] unplowed ground (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 13:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.23/#tree)

רָב־אֹ֭כֶל נִ֣יר רָאשִׁ֑ים וְיֵ֥שׁ נִ֝סְפֶּ֗ה בְּלֹ֣א מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

*Word for word:* abundance of.food \[the\].unplowed.ground of.\[those.who.are\].poor and there.\[is\] \[that.which\].is.swept.away in not justice

*JPS 1917:* Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is swept away by want of righteousness.

[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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5215/): 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).