H5216 · נִיר
nîyr · neer · lamp, light
H5216 (nîyr, pronounced neer) is the Hebrew word נִיר in Strong’s dictionary: a lamp (i. It appears 49 times in 43 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- נִיר (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- nîyr
- Pronunciation
- neer
- Derivation
- or נִר; also נֵיר; or נֵר; or (feminine) נֵרָה; from a primitive root (see H5214 (נִיר); H5135 (נוּר)) properly, meaning to glisten;
- Definition
- a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively)
- Rendered in the KJV
- candle, lamp, light.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
49 occurrences in 43 verses (47 with English words of their own, 2 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “lamps” ×7
- “the lamps” ×7
- “a lamp” ×4
- “and its lamps” ×2
- “is a lamp” ×2
- “is the lamp” ×2
- “the lamp” ×2
- “to keep the lamps” ×2
By book
Exodus 9 · Leviticus 2 · Numbers 3 · 1 Samuel 1 · 2 Samuel 2 · 1 Kings 3 · 2 Kings 1 · 1 Chronicles 1 · 2 Chronicles 5 · Job 3 · Psalms 3 · Proverbs 7 · Jeremiah 1 · Zephaniah 1 · Zechariah 1
First 30 of 43 verses
- Exodus 25:37
- Exodus 27:20
- Exodus 30:7
- Exodus 30:8
- Exodus 35:14
- Exodus 37:23
- Exodus 39:37
- Exodus 40:4
- Exodus 40:25
- Leviticus 24:2
- Leviticus 24:4
- Numbers 4:9
- Numbers 8:2
- Numbers 8:3
- 1 Samuel 3:3
- 2 Samuel 21:17
- 2 Samuel 22:29
- 1 Kings 7:49
- 1 Kings 11:36
- 1 Kings 15:4
- 2 Kings 8:19
- 1 Chronicles 28:15
- 2 Chronicles 4:20
- 2 Chronicles 4:21
- 2 Chronicles 13:11
- 2 Chronicles 21:7
- 2 Chronicles 29:7
- Job 18:6
- Job 21:17
- Job 29:3
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H5216.