נְחִיר
nᵉchîyr · H5156 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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nostril
The two external openings of the nose
ExamplesJob 41:20 “From his nostrils smoke goes out As from a boiling pot and burning reeds.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 2
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 1 word
- אַף ʼaph · H639 · nostrils, nose
- Common Hebrew word for nose/nostrils, can function as a synonym when referring to the anatomical feature of the nostrils, though אַף has broader semantic range including 'anger' and is more frequent.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5156. nachir [נָחִיר noun [masculine] nostril (apparently from above √, and not…
[נָחִיר noun [masculine] nostril (apparently from above √, and not connected with Arabic stab camel in wind-pipe, etc., Aramaic נְחַר kill by stabbing, in nose or throat, compare Late Hebrew נָחַר perforate, kill by stabbing, so that נָחִיר would = perforation, and נחר snort would be denominative); — only dual sf עָשָׁן יֵצֵא מִנְּחִירָיו Job 41:12 (of crocodile).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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