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נָגַר

nâgar · H5064 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to flow

    Process by which liquids flow down

    Examples

    2 Samuel 14:14 “For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. Yet God does not take away life, but makes plans so that the banished one will not be cast out from Him.

    Lamentations 3:49 My eyes flow unceasingly, Without stopping,

    Micah 1:4 The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place.

  2. to pour out

    Causative action by which deities cause liquids to flow from a container

    Examples

    Psalm 75:8 For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine foams; It is well mixed, and He pours out of this; Certainly all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink its dregs.

  3. Literally: to pour (people) out on the hands of the sword; hence: causative action by which humans or deities cause (other) humans to die a violent death (to cause (someone) to die a violent death)

    Examples

    Psalm 63:10 They will be turned over to the power of the sword; They will be a prey for foxes.

    Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore, give their children over to famine And turn them over to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be slaughtered to death, Their young men struck and killed by the sword in battle.

    Ezekiel 35:5 “Since you have had everlasting hostility and have turned over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of the punishment of the end,

  4. to pour down stones

    Literally: to pour stones; hence: causative action by which deities cause stones to fall down from a higher elevation, as liquids are poured from a cup

    Examples

    Micah 1:6 For I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country, Planting places for a vineyard. I will hurl her stones down into the valley, And lay bare her foundations.

  5. to stretch out

    Literally: to pour out (one's) hand; hence: action by which humans stretch out one of their hands

    Examples

    Psalm 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; In the night my hand was stretched out and did not grow weary; My soul refused to be comforted.

How it’s used In 3 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

9 occurrences in 7 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 4 groups

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.

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.

Semantic domains 5 entries
Flow002002001008
נָגַר denotes flowing or pouring, as in Job 20:28's image of a wicked man's possessions flowing away, tying the word to liquid or substance moving away in a stream.
Dead002001001018
The word is used in 2 Samuel 14:14's image of life as water spilled on the ground that "cannot be gathered up," a figure for the irreversibility of death, associating the term with the image of life poured out and lost.
Move002002001012
The domain classification here reflects the word's general sense of something moving or running away, as water or a substance flows from one place to another, tying the term to directional motion.
Stance002001001061
The domain classification here reflects a rarer sense of the root describing something stretched out or extended (paralleling Psalm 77:2's "stretched out" hand), a bodily posture/stance sense distinct from the word's dominant meaning of flowing.
Waterbodies001002008
The word's central image of liquid flowing or being poured out ties it naturally to water as the substance most often described this way, as in the spilled water of 2 Samuel 14:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5064. nagar [נָגַר verb pour, flow, run (Aramaic be long (of time), Aph`el prolong,…
H5064. nagar
[נָגַר verb pour, flow, run (Aramaic be long (of time), Aph`el prolong, potract; נְגַר endure, flow, stream); —
Niph`al Perfect3feminine singular נִגְּרָה Psa 77:3; Lam 3:49;
Participle plural נִגָּרִים 2Sa 14:14; נִגָּרוֺת Job 20:28; —
1 be poured, spilt, 2Sa 14:14 (אַרְצָה מֻגָּרִים כַּמַּיִם in simile of mortality).
2 pour oneself, flow, trickle, of eye (in tears) Lam 3:49.
3 figurative vanish, Job 20:28 (|| גָּלָה).
4 be stretched out (?) נִגְּרָה לַיְלָה יָדִי Psa 77:3 (or read עֵינִי ?).
Hiph`il Perfect וְהִגַּרְתִּ֫י Mic 1:6; Imperfect וַיַּגֵּר Psa 75:9; וַתַּגֵּר Eze 35:5; יַגִּירֻ֫הוּ Psa 63:11; Imperative suffix הַגִּרֵם Jer 18:21; — pour down, hurl down the stones of Samaria, subject ׳י Mic 1:6; pour out, figurative of ׳יs wine-cup, Psa 75:9; followed by חֶ֫רֶב עַליְֿדֵי = deliver over to Jer 18:21; Psa 63:11; Eze 35:5.
Hoph`al Participle בְּמוֺרָד מֻגָּרִים כְּמַיִם Mic 1:4 (in simile, of mountains melting at theophany.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 5 entries
Waterbodies1 occurrenceDead3 occurrencesStance1 occurrenceFlow4 occurrencesMove1 occurrence

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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