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Strong's #5427 - נֶתֶר
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- natron, nitre, soda, carbonate of soda
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2457) rtn (נתר NTR) AC: Release CO: Soda AB: ?: A chemical that releases gases. [from: tn- removing]
V) rtn (נתר NTR) - Release: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (9): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Piel) loose, move, leap, undo, make, drive, asunder, shake - Strongs: H5425 (נָתַר), H5426 (נְתַר)
Nm) rtn (נתר NTR) - Soda: KJV (2): nitre - Strongs: H5427 (נֶתֶר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
; compare Greek νίτρον, λίτρον, Latin nitrum (see Lexicons)); — אִםתְּֿכַבְּסִי בַּנֶּתֶר Jeremiah 2:22 though thou wash thyself with natron (figurative; "" בֹּרִית; on use of 'nitrum' for handwashing among Greeks see Meineke Fragm. Comicorum ii. 638); חֹמֶץ עַלנָֿ֑תֶר Proverbs 25:20 (figurative of the incompatible).
נֶתֶר m. nitre (Gr. νίτρον, λίτρον), prop. natron of the moderns, fossil alkali, potash (different from בֹּרִית vegetable alkali), which, when mixed with oil, is used even now for soap, Proverbs 25:20; Jeremiah 2:22. It appears to be so called because, when water is poured upon it, it effervesces or ferments. See Beckmann, Beyträge zur Geschichte der Erfindungen, t. iv. p. 15, seq. Also the same writer’s Comment. ad Aristot. de Mirab. Auscultat. c. 54. J. D. Michaëlis, de Nitre, § 10.
