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title: נִיר — the tillable · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נִיר (5215), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: the tillable. BDB 1906: the tillable, untilled fallow ground. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נִיר

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«נִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **the tillable** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 5215 · **BDB:** נִיר³

### Glosses

unplowed.ground (2); \[the\].unplowed.ground (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

the tillable [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5215/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

the tillable, untilled fallow ground [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5215/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] the tillable, untilled or fallow ground;—נ׳ abs. as acc. cogn. נִירוּ לָכֶם נִ֑יר Ho 10:12; Je 4:3 till you the untilled ground (fig. of unaccustomed moral action); cstr. only רָב־אֹכֶל נִיר רָאשִׁים Pr 13:23 abundant food (yields) the fallow ground of poor men (i.e. with י׳’s blessing).—i. נִיר v. נור.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5215/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 13:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.23/)

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רָב־אֹ֭כֶל נִ֣יר רָאשִׁ֑ים וְיֵ֥שׁ נִ֝סְפֶּ֗ה בְּלֹ֣א מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

*Word for word:* abundance of.food \[the\].unplowed.ground of.\[those.who.are\].poor and there.\[is\] \[that.which\].is.swept.away in not justice

*JPS 1917:* Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is swept away by want of righteousness.

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[Jeremiah 4:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.4.3/)

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כִּי־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהֹוָ֗ה לְאִ֤ישׁ יְהוּדָה֙ וְלִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם נִ֥ירוּ לָכֶ֖ם נִ֑יר וְאַֽל־תִּזְרְע֖וּ אֶל־קוֹצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Yahweh to the.man of.Judah and to Jerusalem plow for yourselves unplowed.ground and do.not sow to thorns

*JPS 1917:* For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up for you a fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

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