נִיר
nîyr
Meaning
“lamp”
BDB lamp
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15 books · uncommon
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First appears: Exodus 25:37
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נִיר
8 books
Exodus 25:37
נֵרֹתֶ֖י/הָ נֵ֣רֹתֶ֔י/הָ
You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
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1 Samuel 3:3
וְ/נֵ֤ר
and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;
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2 Samuel 21:17
נֵ֥ר
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel.
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1 Kings 7:49
וְ/הַ/נֵּרֹ֛ת
and the lampstands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
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2 Kings 8:19
נִ֛יר
However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
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1 Chronicles 28:15
וְ/נֵרֹֽתֵי/הֶם֙ וְ/נֵרֹתֶ֑י/הָ וְ/נֵרֹתֶ֔י/הָ
by weight also for the lampstands of gold, and for the lamps of it, of gold, by weight for every lampstand and for the lamps of it; and for the lampstands of silver, [silver] by weight for [every] lampstand and for the lamps of it, according to the use of every lampstand;
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2 Chronicles 4:20
וְ/נֵרֹתֵי/הֶ֗ם
and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
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Jeremiah 25:10
נֵֽר
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
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