Lexical Summary niyr: a lamp Original Word: נִירTransliteration: niyr Phonetic Spelling: (neer) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a lamp Meaning: plowing, freshly plowed land Strong's Concordance fallow ground, plowing, tillage Or nir {neer}; from niyr; properly, plowing, i.e. (concretely) freshly plowed land -- fallow ground, plowing, tillage. see HEBREW niyr Brown-Driver-Briggs H5215. niyr II. נִיר noun [masculine] the tillable, untilled or fallow ground; — ׳נ absolute as accusative of congnate meaning with verb נִ֑יר לָכֶם נִירוּ Hosea 10:12; Jeremiah 4:3 till you the untilled ground (figurative of unaccustomed moral action); construct only רָאשִׁים נִיר רָבאֹֿכֶל Proverbs 13:23 abundant food (yields) the fallow ground of poor men (i.e. with ׳יs blessing). — I. נִיר see נור. p. 632f II. ניר (√ of following; compare Late Hebrew נִיר, Arabic Syriac (in Lexicons), all = the system of heddles or 'apparatus [of small cords with loops, or eyes] by which the threads of the warp are raised and lowered to make an opening for the passing of the woof' GFMPAOS Oct. 1889, clxxix. f.; compare Assyrian nîru, Syriac , yoke). |