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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #05247 - נִמְרָה

Transliteration
Nimrâh
Phonetics
nim-raw'
Origin
from the same as (H5246)
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Location
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Nimrah = “limpid” or “pure”

1) a place on the east of the Jordan, 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of the Dead Sea and 3 miles (5 kilometers) east of the Jordan

Frequency Lists
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KJV (1)
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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
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