Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5215
נִיר
nirneer
fallow ground
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5215is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5215
properly, plowing, i.e. (concretely) freshly plowed land
The King James renders it: fallow ground, plowing, tillage.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nir is rendered "fallow ground". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 13:23Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
Proverbs 13:23נִ֣יר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- unplowed ground2
- unplowed ground of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נִ֑יר2
- נִ֣יר1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
Proverbs
one use
Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
- נִ֣ירnirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: unplowed ground of
Jeremiah
one use
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
- נִ֑ירnirnoun · masculine singulartagged: unplowed ground
Hosea
one use
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
- נִ֑ירnirnoun · masculine singulartagged: unplowed ground
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.