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# נֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5216

**lamp** — used 49 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

lamp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5216/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵר: n.m. lamp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5216/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 25:37 lamp;—נ׳ abs. Ex 27:20 +, cstr. 1 S 3:3 +; sf. נֵרִי ψ 18:29, †נֵירִי ‖ 2 S 22:29, etc.; pl. נֵרוֹת abs. Lv 24:4 +; cstr. Ex 39:37; sf. נֵרֹתֶיהָ Ex 25:37(×2) +, נֵרֹתֵיהֶם 1 Ch 28:15 2 Ch 4:20;—lamp in shrine at Shiloh 1 S 3:3; especially of lamps in temple 1 K 7:49 + 7 times Ch, and in tabern. Ex 25:37(×2) + 15 times P; cf. in Zech.’s vision Zc 4:2(×2) as token of merrymaking Je 25:10; used in search Zp 1:12, cf. (fig.) נֵר י׳ נִשְׁמַת אָדָם Pr 20:27; used in household work Pr 31:18; fig. of prosperity נ׳ יִשְׂרָאֵל 2 S 21:17 (embodied in David); also Jb 18:6; 21:17; 29:3 ψ 18:29 = 2 S 22:29, ψ 132:17 Pr 13:9; 20:20; 24:20; of God’s word as a guide ψ 119:105, cf. Pr 6:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 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, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lamps (25); a lamp (7); lamp (7).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 13:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.9/#tree)

אוֹר־צַדִּיקִ֥ים יִשְׂמָ֑ח וְנֵ֖ר רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִדְעָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].light of.righteous.\[people\] it.rejoices and.\[the\] lamp of.wicked.\[people\] it.is.extinguished

*JPS 1917:* The light of the righteous rejoiceth; but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

[Proverbs 20:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.27/#tree)

נֵ֣ר יְ֭הוָה נִשְׁמַ֣ת אָדָ֑ם חֹ֝פֵ֗שׂ כָּל־חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃

*Word for word:* the.lamp of.Yahweh \[is.the\].breath of.a.human \[it.is\].searching all \[the\].chambers of.\[the\].belly

*JPS 1917:* The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inward parts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5216.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5216/): 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).