נִיר
nîyr · H5214 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to break up, to plow
To break up the ground with a plow; unplowed, fallow soil is associated with hardness and stubbornness
ExamplesJeremiah 4:3 For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up your uncultivated ground, And do not sow among thorns.
Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves, with a view to righteousness; Harvest in accordance with kindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, For it is time to seek the LORD Until He comes and rains righteousness on you.
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
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 2
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- נִירlamp 2
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ כֶםyou 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
- חָרַשׁ chârash · H2790 · to engrave (on stone), to carve (wood), to plow
- Hebrew verb for plowing/cultivating land, the most common term for agricultural breaking up of soil (Deut 22:10, 1 Sam 8:12, Job 1:14); semantically overlaps with נִיר in the context of tillage
In the other Testament 1 word
- σκάπτω skáptō · G4626 · to dig, to excavate, to till the ground
- Greek verb for digging/breaking up soil, the standard translation equivalent for agricultural breaking/plowing activity in Hebrew; used in contexts of ground preparation (Luke 13:8, 16:3)
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- נִיר, "to break up," describes breaking up fallow ground for cultivation, as farmers are urged to "break up your uncultivated ground" (Jeremiah 4:3, Hosea 10:12), tying the word to the forceful action of breaking soil.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5214. nir I. [נִיר] verb break up, freshly till; — Qal Imperative masculine plural…
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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