Lamp
נֵרStrong’s H5216ner
Appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ner is the Hebrew word usually translated “lamp”, “lamps its” and “lamps”. It appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament.
“And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:”
Meaning
- Lamp
- Lamp
How it's translated
- a lamp 10
- lamps its 9
- the lamps 7
- lamp of 5
- and lamps its 3
- and lamp of 2
- lamp my 2
- and the lamps 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 9
- Proverbs 7
- 2 Chronicles 5
- Numbers 3
- 1 Kings 3
- Job 3
15 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 25:37And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
- Exodus 27:20And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
- Exodus 30:7And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
- Exodus 30:8And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
- Exodus 35:14The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
- Exodus 37:23And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
All 43 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נֵר ner · lamp
lamp Also means: nir (נִיר "lamp" H5216B)
נִיר nir · lamp
lamp Another spelling of ner (נֵר "lamp" H5216A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lamp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAMP, noun
[Latin lampas; Gr. to shine; Heb.]
- A vessel for containing oil to be burned by means of a wick; or a light, a burning wick inserted in a vessel of oil.
- Figuratively, a light of any kind.
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.