Lye
נֶ֫תֶרStrong’s H5427neter (ne-ter)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neter is the Hebrew word usually translated “soda”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.”
Meaning
- Natron, nitre, soda, carbonate of soda
How it's translated
- soda 1
- with soda 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫תֶר neter · lye
natron, nitre, soda, carbonate of soda
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lye” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LYE, noun
[Latin lix, whence lixivium; Ant. Latin lixa, whence Lugdunum, Leyden, Lyons, that is Water-town.]
All definitions and other forms of “lye”
LYE, noun
A falsehod. [See Lie.]
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.