To pour
נָגַרStrong’s H5064nagar (na-gar)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nagar is the Hebrew word usually translated “which are spilled”, “torrents” and “people will pour him”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.”
Meaning
- To pour, run, flow, pour down(Niphal) · (Hiphil) to pour down · (Hophal) to melt
How it's translated
- which are spilled 1
- torrents 1
- people will pour him 1
- and he has poured out 1
- it was stretched out 1
- and pour them 1
- it has poured itself 1
- and you poured 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Micah 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Lamentations 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
- Psalms 63:10They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
- Psalms 75:8For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
- Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
- Lamentations 3:49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Hebrew dictionary
נָגַר nagar · to pour
1) to pour, run, flow, pour down 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be poured, be spilt 1a2) to pour oneself, flow, trickle 1a3) to vanish (fig.) 1a4) to be stretched out 1b) (Hiphil) to pour down 1c) (Hophal) to melt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pour” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POUR, verb transitive
- To throw, as a fluid in a stream, either out of a vessel, or into it; as, to pour water from a pail, or out of a pail; to pour wine into a decanter. pour is appropriately but not exclusively applied to fluids, and signifies merely to cast or throw, and this sense is modified by out, from, in, into, against, on, upon, under, etc.“I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh” Joel 2:28
- To emit; to send forth in a stream or continued succession.
- To send forth; as, to pour out words, prayers or sighs; to pour out the heart or soul. Psalms 62:8
- To throw in profusion or with overwhelming force.“I will shortly pour out my fury on thee” Ezekiel 7:8
All definitions and other forms of “pour”
POUR, verb intransitive
To flow; to issue forth in a stream, or continued succession of parts; to move or rush, as a current. The torrent pours down from the mountain, or along the steep descent.
- To rush in a crowd or continued procession.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.