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# נֶתֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5427

**natron** — 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

natron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5427/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫תֶר: natron, or carbonate of soda [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5427/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] natron, or carbonate of soda, a mineral alkali (NH = BH; Aramaic נִתְרָא, ܢܶܬܪܳܐ; cf. Gk. νίτρον, λίτρον, Lat. nitrum (v. Lexx.));—אִם־תְּכַבְּסִי בַּנֶּתֶר Je 2:22 though thou wash thyself with natron (fig.; ‖ בֹּרִית; on use of ‘nitrum’ for handwashing among Greeks v. MeinekeFragm. Comicorum ii. 638); חֹמֶץ עַל־נָ֑תֶר Pr 25:20 (fig. of the incompatible).

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: soda (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 25:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.20/#tree)

מַ֥עֲדֶה בֶּ֨גֶד ׀ בְּי֣וֹם קָ֭רָה חֹ֣מֶץ עַל־נָ֑תֶר וְשָׁ֥ר בַּ֝שִּׁרִ֗ים עַ֣ל לֶב־רָֽע׃פ

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].removes a.garment on a.day of.coldness vinegar on soda and \[one.who\].sings (with the songs to a.heart sad

*JPS 1917:* As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.

[Jeremiah 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.22/#tree)

כִּ֤י אִם־תְּכַבְּסִי֙ בַּנֶּ֔תֶר וְתַרְבִּי־לָ֖ךְ בֹּרִ֑ית נִכְתָּ֤ם עֲוֺנֵךְ֙ לְפָנַ֔י נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) though you.will.wash with (the) soda and you.will.increase for yourself soap \[is\].stained iniquity your before me the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord GOD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5427.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5427/): 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).