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# נֶכֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5235

**misfortune** — 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

misfortune [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5235/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫כֶר: misfortune, calamity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5235/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** \[נֹ֫כֶר\] n.\[m.\] misfortune, calamity;—abs. נֶכֶר Jb 31:3 calamity (‖ אֵיד); sf. נָכְרוֹ Ob 12 his calamity.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 31:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.3/#tree)

הֲלֹא־אֵ֥יד לְעַוָּ֑ל וְ֝נֵ֗כֶר לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

*Word for word:* ? not \[does\].calamity \[belong\].to an.unjust.person and misfortune to \[those.who\].do (of).wickedness

*JPS 1917:* Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

[Obadiah 1:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.12/#tree)

וְאַל־תֵּ֤רֶא בְיוֹם־אָחִ֙יךָ֙ בְּי֣וֹם נָכְר֔וֹ וְאַל־תִּשְׂמַ֥ח לִבְנֵֽי־יְהוּדָ֖ה בְּי֣וֹם אָבְדָ֑ם וְאַל־תַּגְדֵּ֥ל פִּ֖יךָ בְּי֥וֹם צָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and do.not look on the.day your.brother your on the.day his.misfortune his and do.not rejoice to the.people of.Judah on the.day perish they and do.not make.big mouth your on.\[the\] day of.trouble

*JPS 1917:* But thou shouldest not have gazed on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5235.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5235/): 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).