נִיר

«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.

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

Glosses

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

Meaning (OSHB)

the tillable tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

the tillable, untilled fallow ground tree →

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.

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Proverbs 13:23

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.

Jeremiah 4:3

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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