Lexical Summary Nimrah: "place of leopard", a place East of the Jordan Original Word: נִמְרָהTransliteration: Nimrah Phonetic Spelling: (nim-raw') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: "place of leopard", a place East of the Jordan Meaning: Nimrah -- "place of leopard", a place East of the Jordan Strong's Concordance Nimrah From the same as namer; clear water; Nimrah, a place East of the Jordan -- Nimrah. See also Beyth Nimrah, Nimriym. see HEBREW namer see HEBREW Beyth Nimrah see HEBREW Nimriym Brown-Driver-Briggs H5247. Nimrah נִמְרָה proper name, of a location place east of Jordan Numbers 32:3 (+ חֶשְׁבּוֺן דִּיבֹן, עֲטָרוֺת,, etc.), ᵐ5 Ναμβρα, A Αμβραμ, ᵐ5L Μαμβραν. Perhaps = Tel Nimrîn, approximately 6 miles east of Jordan, nearly opposite Jericho, compare BuhlGeogr. 264. — compare נ ׳בֵּית (q. v.), also in Late Hebrew (compare נמרה proper name, masculine Sinaitic Inscriptions SACook81 Lzb323; meaning dubious; NöZMG xxix (1875), 437 thinks from spotted or striped appearance of ground; place of leopard also GrayProp. Names 92 (on tribal names from leopard see RSK 201 also Sabean proper name אנמרם Levy-Osl.c., etc.); WeHeid:2, 82 thinks of clear water [compare following]). |
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