Lexicon minharah: perhaps a cave, stronghold Original Word: מִנְהָרוֹתPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: minharah Phonetic Spelling: (min-haw-raw') Short Definition: dens NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom naharDefinitionperhaps a cave, stronghold NASB Translationdens (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ מִנְהָרָה] noun feminine dub., only plural הַמִּנְהָרוֺת אֲשֶׁר בֶּהָרִים Judges 6:2 (+ הַמְּעָרוֺת caves, הַמְּצָדוֺת strong-hold) — (clearly, si vera lectio, from a check נהר, but with what meaning? Schu Job 49 compare Arabic , [which means a place hollowed out by water], and rend. crevices, ravines, so Thes and others; Ra Ki Wetzst Hauran, 46 think of caves with a light-opening; R. Levi ben Gerson beacons, i.e. towers for fire-signals, GFM; but II. נהר late in Hebrew; ᵐ5 τρυμαλίας, ᵑ9 antra; Bu thinks הַמְּעָרוֺת a gloss explaining ׳הַמִּנ). Strong's den From nahar; properly, a channel or fissure, i.e. (by implication) a cavern -- den. see HEBREW nahar |
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