Lexical Summary nether: natron or carbonate of soda Original Word: נֶתֶרTransliteration: nether Phonetic Spelling: (neh'-ther) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: natron or carbonate of soda Meaning: natron or carbonate of soda Strong's Concordance nitre From nathar; mineral potash (so called from effervescing with acid) -- nitre. see HEBREW nathar Brown-Driver-Briggs H5427. nether נֶ֫תֶר noun [masculine] natron, or carbonate of soda, a mineral alkali (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Aramaic נִתְרָא, ; compare Greek νίτρον, λίτρον, Latin nitrum (see Lexicons)); — בַּנֶּתֶר אִםתְּֿכַבְּסִי Jeremiah 2:22 though thou wash thyself with natron (figurative; "" בֹּרִית; on use of 'nitrum' for handwashing among Greeks see MeinekeFragm. Comicorum ii. 638); עַלנָֿ֑תֶר חֹמֶץ Proverbs 25:20 (figurative of the incompatible). |
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