Leopard
נְמַרStrong’s H5245nemar (ne-mar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nemar is the Aramaic word usually translated “like a leopard”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.”
Meaning
- Leopard
How it's translated
- like a leopard 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Aramaic dictionary
נְמַר nemar · leopard
leopard Aramaic of na.mer (נָמֵר "leopard" H5246)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leopard” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEOPARD, noun
lep'ard. [Latin leo, lion, and pardus, pard. Gr. from Heb. to separate, that is, spotted, broken into spots.]
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.