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# נָמֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5246

**leopard** — used 6 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

leopard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5246/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָמֵר: n.m. leopard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5246/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 11:6 leopard;—abs. נ׳ Ho 13:7 + 3 times; pl. נְמֵרִים Hb 1:8; Ct 4:8;—leopard, as spotted Je 13:23, swift Hb 1:8, keen-eyed Je 5:6 (symb. of calamities of Isr.), so Ho 13:7 (sim. of י׳); נ׳ עִם־גְּדִי יִרְבָּ֑ץ Is 11:6 (predict.); הַרֲרֵי נְמֵרִים Ct 4:8 (‖ מְעֹנוֹת אֲרָיוֹת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: a leopard (3); leopard (1); of leopards (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 13:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.13.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.13.7/#tree)

וָאֱהִ֥י לָהֶ֖ם כְּמוֹ־שָׁ֑חַל כְּנָמֵ֖ר עַל־דֶּ֥רֶךְ אָשֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* and I.became to them like a.lion like a.leopard on a.road I.will.watch

*JPS 1917:* Therefore am I become unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;

[Jeremiah 13:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.23/#tree)

הֲיַהֲפֹ֤ךְ כּוּשִׁי֙ עוֹר֔וֹ וְנָמֵ֖ר חֲבַרְבֻּרֹתָ֑יו גַּם־אַתֶּם֙ תּוּכְל֣וּ לְהֵיטִ֔יב לִמֻּדֵ֖י הָרֵֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* will he.change? a.Cushite skin his and a.leopard spots its also you you.will.be.able to do.good O.\[those\].accustomed (of).to.do.evil

*JPS 1917:* Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5246.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5246/): 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).