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# נִמְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5247

**Nimrah. See also** — 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

Nimrah. See also [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5247/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִמְרָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5247/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. place E. of Jordan Nu 32:3 (+ עֲטָרוֹת, דִּיבֹן, חֶשְׁבּוֹן, etc.), 𝔊 Ναμβρα, A Αμβραμ, 𝔊L Μαμβραν. Perhaps = Tel Nimrîn, c. 6 m. E. of Jordan, nearly opp. Jericho, cf. BuhlGeogr. 264.—Cf. בֵּית נ׳ (q.v.), also in NH (cf. נמרה n.pr.m. Sinait. Inscr. SACook81 Lzb323; meaning dub.; NöZMG xxix (1875), 437 thinks from spotted or striped appearance of ground; place of leopard also GrayProp. Names 92 (on tribal names from leopard v. RSK 201 also Sab n.pr. אנמרם Levy-Osl.c., etc.); WeHeid. 2, 82 thinks of clear water \[cf. foll.\]).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 32:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.3/#tree)

עֲטָר֤וֹת וְדִיבֹן֙ וְיַעְזֵ֣ר וְנִמְרָ֔ה וְחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן וְאֶלְעָלֵ֑ה וּשְׂבָ֥ם וּנְב֖וֹ וּבְעֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* Ataroth and Dibon and Jazer and Nimrah and Heshbon and Elealeh and Sebam and Nebo and Beon

*JPS 1917:* 'Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5247.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5247/): 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).