נָאַר
nâʼar · H5010 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to reject
Action by which deities turn away from an object that they used to feel affection for
ExamplesPsalm 89:39 You have repudiated the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust.
Lamentations 2:7 The Lord has rejected His altar, He has repudiated His sanctuary; He has handed over The walls of her palaces to the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As on the day of an appointed feast.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בְּרִיתcovenant, treaty 1
- מִקְדָּשׁsanctuary, holy place 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מָאַס mâʼaç · H3988 · to reject, to refuse, to waste away
- Both words center on rejection and abhorrence. They share the rendering "abhor"; מָאַס (mâʼaç, H3988) adds "despise, reject, loathe," and נָאַר (nâʼar, H5010) adds "make void." נָאַר (nâʼar, H5010) occurs only twice.
- קוּץ qûwts · H6973 · to abhor, to detest, to resent
- Both terms share "abhor" as a core sense. One has a narrower gloss range ("abhor, make void"), while the other covers a much broader range of emotional distress ("abhor, be distressed, be grieved, loathe, vex, be weary") — the overlap at "abhor/loathe" is real but modest, since the second term's broader range extends well beyond the first's narrower usage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- נָאַר denotes abhorring or spurning something, its occurrences (Psalm 89:39, Lamentations 2:7) describing the LORD renouncing His covenant or spurning His altar, associating the word with a strong rejection akin to hatred or repudiation.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5010. naar [נָאַר] verb only Pi`el exact meaning uncertain; probably (from context)…
[נָאַר] verb only
Pi`el exact meaning uncertain; probably (from context) abhor, spurn (De compare Arabic abhor, but this is med. ); —
Pi`el Perfect subject נִאֵר ׳י, Lam 2:7 (object מִקְדָּשׁוֺ; || זָנַת); 2 masculine singular נֵאַרְתָּה Psa 89:40 (object עַבְדְּךָ בְּרית; || חִלֵּל, and מָאַס זָנַח, Psa 89:39; doubts cast on text by Hup (reading נאץ), Now, BuLam 2:7).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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