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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #5247 - נִמְרָה
Transliteration
Nimrâh
Phonetics
nim-raw'
Origin
from the same as (H5246)
Parts of Speech
proper locative noun
TWOT
None
Definition
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition
- Nimrah = "limpid" or "pure"
- a place on the east of the Jordan, 10 miles (16 km) north of the Dead Sea and 3 miles (5 km) east of the Jordan
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
נִמְרָה proper name, of a location place east of Jordan Numbers 32:3 (+ עֲטָרוֺת, דִּיבֹן, חֶשְׁבּוֺן, etc.), ᵐ5 Ναμβρα, A Αμβραμ, ᵐ5 L Μαμβραν. Perhaps = Tel Nimrîn, approximately 6 miles east of Jordan, nearly opposite Jericho, compare Buhl Geogr. 264. — compare ׳בֵּית נ (q. v.), also in Late Hebrew (compare נמרה proper name, masculine Sinaitic Inscriptions SACook81 Lzb323; meaning dubious; Nö ZMG xxix (1875), 437 thinks from spotted or striped appearance of ground; place of leopard also Gray Prop. Names 92 (on tribal names from leopard see RS K 201 also Sabean proper name אנמרם Levy-Os l.c., etc.); We Heid:2,82 thinks of clear water [compare following]).
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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition
נִמְרָה & נִמְרִים [Nimrah, Nimrim], pr.n., see נִמְרָה בֵּית p. 118, A.
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List of Word Forms
וְנִמְרָ֔ה ונמרה venimRah wə·nim·rāh wənimrāh