Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
lamp
Usage: lamp Also means: nir (נִיר "lamp" H5216B)
Nir means “lamp” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5216 — hymon (“you”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5216 נִיר נִר נֵיר נֵר נֵרָה (niyr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. niyr (neer) (or nir {neer} also neyr {nare}; or ner {nare}; or (feminine) nerah {nay-raw'};) n-m. 1. H5135) properly, meaning to glisten 2. a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively) It has 42 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include also. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
niyr (neer) (or nir {neer} also neyr {nare}; or ner {nare}; or (feminine) nerah {nay-raw'};) n-m. 1. H5135) properly, meaning to glisten 2. a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively) [from a primitive root (see H5214] KJV: candle, lamp, light. Root(s): H5214 See also: H5135
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5216. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
lamp
Usage: lamp Also means: nir (נִיר "lamp" H5216B)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render niyr, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
42 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
And 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.
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
First 42 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5216.
And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
And 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.
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.
And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
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:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5216, grouped by book.
Nir (Strong's H5216) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lamp". niyr (neer) (or nir {neer} also neyr {nare}; or ner {nare}; or (feminine) nerah {nay-raw'};) n-m. 1. H5135) properly, meaning to glisten 2. a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively)
This page currently indexes 42 linked usages for Strong's H5216 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5216 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as also. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.