Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5246
נָמֵר
namernaw-mare'
leopard
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâmêr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5246is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5246
a leopard (from its stripes)
The King James renders it: leopard.
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
namer is rendered "leopard". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Song of Solomon 4:8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
Song of Solomon 4:8נְמֵרִֽים׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a leopard1
- and a leopard1
- and leopard1
- leopards1
- like a leopard1
- more than leopards1
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.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וְנָמֵ֖ר2
- כְּנָמֵ֖ר1
- מִנְּמֵרִ֜ים1
- נָמֵ֤ר1
- נְמֵרִֽים׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Song of Solomon
one use
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
- נְמֵרִֽים׃nemerimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: leopards
Isaiah
one use
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
- וְנָמֵ֖רvenamerconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and leopard
Jeremiah
two uses
Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
- נָמֵ֤רnamernoun · masculine singulartagged: a leopard
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.
- וְנָמֵ֖רvenamerconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a leopard
Hosea
one use
So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
- כְּנָמֵ֖רkenamerpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a leopard
Habakkuk
one use
Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.
- מִנְּמֵרִ֜יםminemerimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: more than leopards
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.