Nostril
נָחִירStrong’s H5156nechir (ne-chir)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nechir is the Hebrew word usually translated “from nostrils its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.”
Meaning
- Nostril
How it's translated
- from nostrils its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נָחִיר nechir · nostril
nostril
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “nostril” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NOS'TRIL, noun
[Thyrl or thirel is an opening or perforation; thirlian, thyrlian, to bore, to perforate, to thrill, to drill. See Drill.]
An aperture or passage through the nose. The nostrils are the passages through which air is inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
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.