Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5216: נִיר (nîyr) Definition

Strong's number
H5216
Lemma
נִיר
Transliteration
nîyr
Pronunciation
neer
Strong's definition
a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively) candle, lamp, light. or נִר; also נֵיר; or נֵר; or (feminine) נֵרָה; from a primitive root (see H5214 (נִיר); H5135 (נוּר)) properly, meaning to glisten;

42 instances of the word נִיר nîyr (H5216)


  • Exodus 40:4 - And thou shalt bring in the table and set in order the things that are to be set in order And thou shalt bring in the candlestick and light the lamps

  • Exodus 40:25 - And he lighted the lamps before as the LORD commanded as the LORD Moses

  • Jeremiah 25:10 - Moreover I will take and the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride and the voice of the millstones and the light of the candle

  • Job 18:6 - The light shall be dark in his tabernacle and his candle shall be put out

  • Job 21:17 - How oft is the candle of the wicked put out and how oft cometh their destruction sorrows upon them! God distributeth in his anger

  • Job 29:3 - shined When his candle upon my head and when by his light through darkness

  • Leviticus 24:2 - Command the children of Israel that they bring oil olive unto thee pure beaten for the light to burn to cause the lamps continually

  • Leviticus 24:4 - candlestick upon the pure He shall order the lamps before the LORD continually

  • Numbers 4:9 - And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the candlestick of the light and his lamps and his tongs and his snuffdishes vessels and all the oil thereof wherewith they minister

  • Numbers 8:2 - Speak unto Aaron and say unto him When thou lightest lamps over against the candlestick shall give light the seven lamps

  • Numbers 8:3 - did And Aaron thereof over against the candlestick so he lighted the lamps commanded as the LORD Moses

  • Proverbs 6:23 - is a lamp For the commandment and the law is light are the way of life and reproofs of instruction

  • Proverbs 13:9 - The light of the righteous rejoiceth but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out

  • Proverbs 20:20 - Whoso curseth his father or his mother shall be put out his lamp in obscure darkness

  • Proverbs 20:27 - is the candle of the LORD The spirit of man searching all the inward parts of the belly

  • Proverbs 24:20 - For there shall be no reward to the evil man the candle of the wicked shall be put out

  • Proverbs 31:18 - She perceiveth is good that her merchandise goeth not out by night her candle

  • Psalms 18:28 - For thou wilt light my candle the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness

  • Psalms 119:105 - is a lamp unto my feet NUN Thy word and a light unto my path

  • Psalms 132:17 - There will I make the horn of David I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed