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title: נִמְרָה — Nimrah. See also · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נִמְרָה (5247), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Nimrah. See also. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נִמְרָה

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«נִמְרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Nimrah. See also** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5247 · **BDB:** נִמְרָה

### Glosses

Nimrah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Nimrah. See also [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5247/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5247/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. place E. of Jordan Nu 32:3 (+ עֲטָרוֹת, דִּיבֹן, חֶשְׁבּוֹן, etc.), 𝔊 Ναμβρα, A Αμβραμ, 𝔊L Μαμβραν. Perhaps = Tel Nimrîn, c. 6 m. E. of Jordan, nearly opp. Jericho, cf. BuhlGeogr. 264.—Cf. בֵּית נ׳ (q.v.), also in NH (cf. נמרה n.pr.m. Sinait. Inscr. SACook81 Lzb323; meaning dub.; NöZMG xxix (1875), 437 thinks from spotted or striped appearance of ground; place of leopard also GrayProp. Names 92 (on tribal names from leopard v. RSK 201 also Sab n.pr. אנמרם Levy-Osl.c., etc.); WeHeid. 2, 82 thinks of clear water \[cf. foll.\]).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נִמְרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5247/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 32:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.3/)

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עֲטָר֤וֹת וְדִיבֹן֙ וְיַעְזֵ֣ר וְנִמְרָ֔ה וְחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן וְאֶלְעָלֵ֑ה וּשְׂבָ֥ם וּנְב֖וֹ וּבְעֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* Ataroth and Dibon and Jazer and Nimrah and Heshbon and Elealeh and Sebam and Nebo and Beon

*JPS 1917:* 'Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

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