נִיר
nîyr · H5216 · Hebrew · 49 occurrences
Thing
- Oil lamp and wickHousehold67 verses
Meanings
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a lamp
A small earthenware container filled with oil and with a wick placed in it, sometimes placed on a lampstand and used as a source of light, associated with peace, stability and well-being
Examples1 Kings 11:36 ‘But to his son I will give one tribe, so that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.
1 Kings 15:4 But for David’s sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem,
2 Kings 8:19 However, the LORD did not want to destroy Judah, for the sake of David His servant, since He had promised him to give him a lamp through his sons always.
How it’s used In 9 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
28 occurrences in 9 groups
- הּher 13
- רָשָׁעwicked 4
- הוּhis 3
- Other words · 6 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- שֶׁבַעseven 4
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- נִירlamp 2
- רוּםheight 1
- רָחָבbroad 1
What it doesIt is the subject
9 occurrences in 4 groups
- דָּעַךְto go out 5
- כָּבָהto be extinguished 2
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- אוֹרto be light 1
What is done to itIt is the object
21 occurrences in 9 groups
- עָלָהto go up 8
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 3
- Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָher 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
- מוּצָקָהlip 1
- מִצְוָהcommandment, command 1
- נְשָׁמָהbreath 1
- אַתָּהyou 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 3
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אוֹרlight 1
- מִשְׁקָלweight 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 1 word
- לַפִּיד lappîyd · H3940 · torch, flame
- Both words denote light-producing or light-carrying objects. לַפִּיד (lappîyd, H3940) stresses a torch or firebrand, which is fire-based and portable, while נִיר (nîyr, H5216) centers on a lamp or candle, a sustained source of light.
In the other Testament 1 word
- λύχνος lýchnos · G3088 · lamp
- Greek λύχνος denotes a portable lamp or light source, directly translating Hebrew נִיר's concrete sense of a physical lamp or candle that provides illumination.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Lamps001003001001012
- The word is used repeatedly for the tabernacle's lampstand and its lamps, which Aaron sets up and tends with oil so they burn continually (Exodus 25:37, 27:20, 30:7-8, 35:14), tying the word to the physical lamp as a light-giving object.
- Land001002002
- This same word is also used idiomatically for unplowed, fallow ground that must be broken up before sowing (e.g. Jeremiah 4:3, Hosea 10:12), tying the word to tilled land as an agricultural sense broader than the lamp-related citations sampled here.
- Names of People003001007
- This entry carries no independent personal-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the common noun for a lamp, as in “Also make its lamps, seven of them” in context of the lampstand instructions (Exodus 25:37). The “Names of People” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme נֵר (Nêr, H5369) rather than independently attested here.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5216. ner I. נֵר noun masculineExo 25:37 lamp; — ׳נ absolute Exo 27:20 +, construct 1Sa…
I. נֵר noun masculineExo 25:37 lamp; — ׳נ absolute Exo 27:20 +, construct 1Sa 3:3 +; suffix נֵרִי Psa 18:29, נֵירִי || 2Sa 22:29, etc.; plural נֵרוֺת absolute Lev 24:4 +; construct Exo 39:37; suffix נֵרֹתֶיהָ Exo 25:37 (twice in verse) +, נֵרֹתֵיהֶם 1Ch 28:15; 2Ch 4:20; — lampin shrine at Shiloh 1Sa 3:3; especially of lampsin temple 1Ki 7:49 1Ki 7:7t. Chronicles, and in tabernacle Exo 25:37 (twice in verse) + 15 t. P; compare in Zechariah's vision Zec 4:2 (twice in verse) as token of merrymaking Jer 25:10; used in search Zep 1:12, compare (figurative) י ׳נֵר אָדָם נִשְׁמַת Pro 20:27; used in household work Pro 31:18; figurative of prosperity ׳נ יִשְׂרָאֵל 2Sa 21:17 (embodied in David); also Job 18:6; Job 21:17; Job 29:3; Psa 18:29 = 2Sa 22:29; Psa 132:17; Pro 13:9; Pro 20:20; Pro 24:20; of God's word as a guide Psa 119:105, compare Pro 6:23.
I. נִיר noun [masculine] lamp; — always figurative לְדָוִיד הֱיוֺתנֿ ׳לְמַעַן 1Ki 11:26, i.e. that his family may remain on the throne; compare 1Ki 15:4; 2Ki 8:19 2Ch 21:7; happiness, delight (construct) רְשָׁעִים נִר Pro 21:4 (so Vrss Thes Buhl Now Wild, > Ew Del SS Frankenb = II. נִיר below II. ניר below).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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