Lexical Summary nachir: a nostril Original Word: נְחִירTransliteration: nachir Phonetic Spelling: (nekh-eer') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a nostril Meaning: a nostril Strong's Concordance dual nostrils From the same as nachar; a nostril -- (dual) nostrils. see HEBREW nachar Brown-Driver-Briggs H5156. nachir [נָחִיר noun [masculine] nostril (apparently from above √, and not connected with Arabic stab camel in wind-pipe, etc., Aramaic נְחַר kill by stabbing, in nose or throat, compare Late Hebrew נָחַר perforate, kill by stabbing, so that נָחִיר would = perforation, and נחר snort would be denominative); — only dual sf עָשָׁן יֵצֵא מִנְּחִירָיו Job 41:12 (of crocodile). |
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