Leopard
נְמַרStrong’s H5246nemar (ne-mar)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nemar is the Hebrew word usually translated “leopards”, “leopard” and “like a leopard”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.”
Meaning
- Leopard
How it's translated
- leopards 1
- and leopard 1
- a leopard 1
- and a leopard 1
- like a leopard 1
- more than leopards 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
- Habakkuk 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 11:6The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
- Jeremiah 5:6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
- Jeremiah 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
- Hosea 13:7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
- Habakkuk 1:8Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.