Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5373
נֵרְדְּ
nerdnayrd
nard
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nêrd
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5373is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5373
nard, an aromatic
The King James renders it: spikenard.
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
nerd is rendered "nard". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Song of Solomon 1:12While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
Song of Solomon 1:12נִרְדִּ֖י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- nard1
- nard my1
- nard plants1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נֵרְגַּל | Neregal | Nergal | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- נֵ֣רְדְּ׀1
- נִרְדִּ֖י1
- נְרָדִֽים׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
Song of Solomon
three uses
While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
- נִרְדִּ֖יnirdinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: nard my
Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,
- נְרָדִֽים׃neradimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: nard plants
with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
- נֵ֣רְדְּ׀nerednoun · masculine singulartagged: nard
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.