Word

נֵר

Nêr · H5369 · Hebrew · proper noun · 16 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Meanings

  1. Ner

    A man of the tribe of Benjamin, grandfather of King Saul and father of Abner

    Examples

    1 Samuel 14:50 And the name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.

    1 Samuel 14:51 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

    1 Samuel 26:5 David then set out and came to the place where Saul had camped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army; and Saul was lying in the circle of the camp, and the people were camped around him.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

12 occurrences in 1 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.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Lamps001003001001012
This entry carries no independent "Lamps" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of this lexeme (e.g. 1 Samuel 14:50, 2 Samuel 2:8) is the personal name Ner, Abner's father, not a lamp. The domain is bundle-shared with the identically-spelled common noun נֵר ("lamp," נִיר (nîyr, H5216)), illustrated at 1 Samuel 14:50 ("the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle").
Names of People003001007
The word is the proper name of Ner, father of Abner and grandfather (or uncle) of Saul (1 Samuel 14:50-51), tying the word to this specific individual.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5369. Ner נֵר proper name, masculine ᵐ5 Νηρ 1 father of Abner 1Sa 14:50; 1Sa 14:51; 1Sa…
H5369. Ner
נֵר proper name, masculine ᵐ5 Νηρ
1 father of Abner 1Sa 14:50; 1Sa 14:51; 1Sa 26:5; 1Sa 26:14; 2Sa 2:8; 2Sa 2:12; 2Sa 3:23; 2Sa 3:25; 2Sa 3:28; 2 Samuel 2:37; 1Ki 2:5; 1Ki 2:32; 1Ch 26:28.
2 father of Kish 1Ch 8:33; 1Ch 9:36, 1Ch 9:39.

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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