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STRONGS NUMBER H5156

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Word Summary
nachir: a nostril
Original Word: נְחִיר
Transliteration: nachir
Phonetic Spelling: (nekh-eer')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a nostril
Meaning: a nostril
Strong's Concordance
dual nostrils

From the same as nachar; a nostril -- (dual) nostrils.

see HEBREW nachar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5156. nachir

[נָחִיר‎ noun [masculine] nostril (apparently from above √, and not connected with Arabic stab camel in wind-pipe, etc., Aramaic נְחַר‎ kill by stabbing, in nose or throat, compare Late Hebrew נָחַר‎ perforate, kill by stabbing, so that נָחִיר‎ would = perforation, and נחר‎ snort would be denominative); — only dual sf עָשָׁן יֵצֵא מִנְּחִירָיו‎ Job 41:12 (of crocodile).





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