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Strong's #5214 - נִיר
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- (Qal) to break up, freshly plough or till
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1319) rn (נר NR) AC: Plow CO: Light AB: ?: The pictograph n is a picture of a seed, the r is a picture of the head of a man representing the top or beginning of something. Combined these mean "seed beginning". Rains in the mountainous areas cause a flooding of the rivers. The rivers swell causing the water to flood the land next to the river. This is the only water that the land will see and is necessary for crop production. After the flood season, the land is plowed by the use of a plow attached to the yoke of the oxen. The surface of the soil is dry but, when the soil is turned up it glistens in the sun from the water remaining in the soil. This water is necessary for the seed to begin germination.
A) rn (נר NR) AC: ? CO: Lamp AB: ?: An oil filled container with a wick that gives off light.
Nm) rn (נר NR) - Lamp: KJV (48): lamp, candle, light - Strongs: H5216 (נֵרָה)
D) ran (נאר NAR) AC: Reject CO: ? AB: ?: [Unknown connection to root]
V) ran (נאר NAR) - Reject: KJV (2): (vf: Piel) void, abhor - Strongs: H5010 (נָאַר)
G) ren (נהר NHR) AC: Flow CO: River AB: ?: The life giving water that washes over the soil.
V) ren (נהר NHR) - I. Flow:From the flowing of a river. II. Bright:From the glistening water as it flows. KJV (6): (vf: Paal) flow, lighten - Strongs: H5102 (נָהַר)
Nm) ren (נהר NHR) - River: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (135): river, stream, flood - Strongs: H5103 (נְהַר), H5104 (נָהָר)
Nf1) eren (נהרה NHRH) - Light: KJV (1): light - Strongs: H5105 (נְהָרָה)
bm) rien (נהיר NHYR) - Enlightenment: One having the light of wisdom. [Aramaic only] [df: wryhn] KJV (3): light - Strongs: H5094 (נְהִיר)
hf1 ) erenm (מנהרה MNHRH) - Ravine: As cut by the flowing of water. KJV (1): den - Strongs: H4492 (מִנְהָרָה)
J) rfn (נור NWR) AC: ? CO: Lamp AB: ?
Nf ) rfn (נור NWR) - Fire: [Aramaic only] KJV (17): fiery, fire - Strongs: H5135 (נוּר)
am) rfnm (מנור MNWR) - Yoke: A type of yoke used by a weaver. KJV (4): beam - Strongs: H4500 (מָנוֹר)
im) rfnt (תנור TNWR) - Oven: As a lamp for cooking. KJV (15): oven, furnace - Strongs: H8574 (תָּנּוּר)
kf1) erfnm (מנורה MNWRH) - Lamp: KJV (40): candlestick - Strongs: H4501 (מִנֹרָה)
M) rin (ניר NYR) AC: Plow CO: ? AB: ?
V) rin (ניר NYR) - Plow: KJV (2): (vf: Paal) break up - Strongs: H5214 (נִיר)
Nm) rin (ניר NYR) - Plowing: KJV (4): fallow, tillage, plowing - Strongs: H5215 (נִר)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Imperative masculine plural נִ֫ירוּ, with accusative of congnate meaning with verb נִיר Hosea 10:12; Jeremiah 4:3.
נִיר to break up the ground (with a plough), Hosea 10:12; Jeremiah 4:3. I consider this root to be sprung from the Hiph. of the verb נוּר (comp. Ewald’s Gramm., § 235), so that prop. it is to make a field shine. Hence מָנוֹר a yoke for plowing, [also נִיר No. 2.]
נִיר m. (from the root נוּר)
(1) i.q. נֵר a lamp, always used figuratively of progeny. 1 Kings 11:36, לְמַעַן הֱיוֹת־נִיר לְדָוִיד־עַבְדִּי כָּל־הַיָּמִים “that David my servant might always have a lamp,” i.e. that his race might continue for ever; compare 15:4 2 Kings 8:19; 2 Chronicles 21:7.
(2) novale, a field newly cultivated; Proverbs 13:23; Jeremiah 4:3; Hosea 10:12 see the root נִיר.
