nagar · pour, flow, deliver over

What it means

nagar (נָגַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pour, flow, deliver over”.

To be poured out, to flow (of water); elsewhere, to hand over or bring down.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To flow like water; weep much.
2. To hand someone over to the enemy, or to throw down and scatter.
3. To stretch the hand out toward something, without tiring.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• poured out ×3
• I will pour down ×1
• They will be handed over ×1
• flows ×1
• he pours out ×1
• pour them out ×1
• poured down ×1
• was stretched out ×1

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Micah×2

• 2 Samuel 14:14

  For we will surely die, and we are like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up; but Elohim does not take away life, and he devises plans so that the banished one may not remain banished from him.

• Job 20:28

  The produce of his house will depart, like things poured out in the day of his anger.

• Psalms 63:10

  They will be handed over into the hands of the sword; a portion for foxes they will be.

• Psalms 75:8

  For a cup is in the hand of YHWH, and the wine foams, full of mixture; and he pours out from it; surely its dregs they will drain; all the wicked of the earth will drink.

• Psalms 77:2

  In the day of my distress I sought Adonai; my hand by night was stretched out and did not grow numb; my soul refused to be comforted.

• Jeremiah 18:21

  Therefore give their sons to famine, and pour them out into the hands of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of children and widows; and let their men be slain by death, their young men struck by the sword in battle.

• Lamentations 3:49

  My eye flows and does not cease, without respite,

• Ezekiel 35:5

  Because you had an eternal enmity and poured out the sons of Israel into the hands of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the iniquity of the end,

• Micah 1:4

  And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a slope.

• Micah 1:6

  “And I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field, a place for planting a vineyard; and I will pour down into the valley her stones, and her foundations I will lay bare.