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title: נֶכֶר — misfortune · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֶכֶר (5235), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: misfortune. BDB 1906: misfortune, calamity. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֶכֶר

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«נֶכֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **misfortune** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 5235 · **BDB:** נֶ֫כֶר

### Glosses

his.misfortune (1); misfortune (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

misfortune [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5235/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

misfortune, calamity [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5235/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** \[נֹ֫כֶר\] n.\[m.\] misfortune, calamity;—abs. נֶכֶר Jb 31:3 calamity (‖ אֵיד); sf. נָכְרוֹ Ob 12 his calamity.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֶכֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5235/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 31:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.3/)

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הֲלֹא־אֵ֥יד לְעַוָּ֑ל וְ֝נֵ֗כֶר לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

*Word for word:* ? not \[does\].calamity \[belong\].to an.unjust.person and misfortune to \[those.who\].do (of).wickedness

*JPS 1917:* Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

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[Obadiah 1:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.12/)

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וְאַל־תֵּ֤רֶא בְיוֹם־אָחִ֙יךָ֙ בְּי֣וֹם נָכְר֔וֹ וְאַל־תִּשְׂמַ֥ח לִבְנֵֽי־יְהוּדָ֖ה בְּי֣וֹם אָבְדָ֑ם וְאַל־תַּגְדֵּ֥ל פִּ֖יךָ בְּי֥וֹם צָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and do.not look on the.day your.brother your on the.day his.misfortune his and do.not rejoice to the.people of.Judah on the.day perish they and do.not make.big mouth your on.\[the\] day of.trouble

*JPS 1917:* But thou shouldest not have gazed on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

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