Lexicon Nimrah: "place of leopard," a place East of the Jordan Original Word: נִמְרָהPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Nimrah Phonetic Spelling: (nim-raw') Short Definition: Nimrah NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as namerDefinition"place of leopard," a place E. of the Jordan NASB TranslationNimrah (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs נִמְרָה proper name, of a location place east of Jordan Numbers 32:3 (+ עֲטָרוֺת, דִּיבֹן, חֶשְׁבּוֺן, etc.), ᵐ5 Ναμβρα, A Αμβραμ, ᵐ5L 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 SACook 81 Lzb 323; 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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