נִיר
nîyr · neer
a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: or נִר; also נֵיר; or נֵר; or (feminine) נֵרָה; from a primitive root (see H5214 (נִיר); H5135 (נוּר)) properly, meaning to glisten;
a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: candle, lamp, light.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › the hand that works › the head, the highest
The seed, life continuing of the hand that works of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נִיר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
49 occurrences · 49 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the lamps9 · 21%
- lamps5 · 12%
- and his lamps2 · 5%
- with the lamps2 · 5%
- and the lamps2 · 5%
- a light2 · 5%
- is a lamp2 · 5%
- to cause the lamp1 · 2%
- thereof, even with the lamps1 · 2%
- to cause the lamps1 · 2%
- and ere the lamp1 · 2%
- not the light1 · 2%
- for thou art my lamp1 · 2%
- may have a light1 · 2%
- him a lamp1 · 2%
- and for their lamps1 · 2%
- and for the lamps1 · 2%
- and also for the lamps1 · 2%
- with their lamps1 · 2%
- and his candle1 · 2%
- how oft is the candle1 · 2%
- when his candle1 · 2%
- my candle1 · 2%
- a lamp1 · 2%
- but the lamp1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.