נֶכֶר
neker · H5235 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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misfortune, disaster
Process by which events take place that cause damage, distress, hurt, and/or loss of life
ExamplesJob 31:3 “Is it not disaster to the criminal, And misfortune to those who practice injustice?
Obadiah 1:12 “Do not gloat over your brother’s day, The day of his misfortune. And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah On the day of their destruction; Yes, do not boast On the day of their distress.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פָּעַלto do, to work 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יוֹםday, time 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
- זוּר zûwr · H2114 · stranger, outsider, strange
- זוּר is a distinct Hebrew root meaning strange or foreign, semantically overlapping with נֶכֶר in denoting that which is alien or unfamiliar. Both can describe foreignness or strangeness without being from the same cognate family.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ξένος xénos · G3581 · unknown, unheard of, unfamiliar
- Greek ξένος is the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew נֶכֶר, both denoting that which is strange, foreign, or alien. Both terms describe the quality of being unfamiliar or outside one's own group.
- ἀλλότριος allótrios · G245 · belonging to another, belonging to someone else, stranger
- Greek ἀλλότριος conveys the sense of strange or belonging to another, closely paralleling נֶכֶר in describing that which is foreign or not one's own.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unsafe002003003022
- The word describes something foreign or strange in a threatening sense, as strangers who devour the strength of one who does not recognize it (Hosea 7:9), tying the word to a hazard originating from an alien source.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5235. neker נֶ֫כֶר, [נֹ֫כֶר noun [masculine] misfortune, calamity; — absolute נֶכֶר Job…
נֶ֫כֶר, [נֹ֫כֶר noun [masculine] misfortune, calamity; — absolute נֶכֶר Job 31:3 calamity (|| אֵיד); suffix נָכְרוֺ Obadiah 12 his calamity.
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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