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# נֵרְדְּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5373

**nard** — 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

nard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5373/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵרְדְּ: n.m. nard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5373/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. nard, an odorif. plant from India (via Presia) (Skr. naladâ; Pers. nârdîn; Sab. Arabic transp. رَنْد according to DHMBurgen u. Schlosser 975 (SB xcvii) v. also Sab.Denkm. 82; Gk. νάρδος \[so 𝔊\] (through Semites) LewyFremdwörter 40; cf. LöwNo. 316 LagM. ii. 25);—abs. נ׳ Ct 4:14; sf. נִרְדִּי נָתַן רֵיחוֹ 1:12; pl. נְרָדִים 4:13.

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 (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: nard (2); nard plants (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.13/#tree)

שְׁלָחַ֙יִךְ֙ פַּרְדֵּ֣ס רִמּוֹנִ֔ים עִ֖ם פְּרִ֣י מְגָדִ֑ים כְּפָרִ֖ים עִם־נְרָדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* shoots your \[are\].a.garden of.pomegranates with fruit of.excellence(s) henna.plants with nard.plants

*JPS 1917:* Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants,

[Song of Songs 1:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.12/#tree)

עַד־שֶׁ֤הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ בִּמְסִבּ֔וֹ נִרְדִּ֖י נָתַ֥ן רֵיחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* until that the king \[was\].at table his nard my it.gave.forth odor its

*JPS 1917:* While the king sat at his table, my spikenard sent forth its fragrance.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5373.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5373/): 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).