Lexicon nemalah: an ant Original Word: נְמָלִיםPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: nemalah Phonetic Spelling: (nem-aw-law') Short Definition: ant NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionan ant NASB Translationant (1), ants (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs נְמָלָה noun feminine of individual meaning (Lag BN 81) ant (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic (noun of individual meaning of ); Syriac ); — absolute ׳נ Proverbs 6:8; plural הַנְּמָלִים Proverbs 30:25. נמר (√ of following, meaning dubious; possibly compare Assyrian namâru, shine, gleam (from glossy coat of panther and leopard), [see Arabic pardus, and limpidus, purus (of water; compare below נמרים)] so HomNS 294 f.; ag. this NöZMG xl (1886), 736 SchwIdioticon 121; נָמֵר is comm. Sem.: Assyrian nimru DlHWB 468; Arabic , Lane2853; Ethiopic Syriac , ᵑ7 נִמְרָא; Late Hebrew נָמֵר).
Strong's ant Feminine from namal; an ant (probably from its almost bisected form) -- ant. see HEBREW namal |
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