נָמֵר
namer · leopard
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5246 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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namer (נָמֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “leopard”.
A leopard.
How to say it
na·mer
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
- A spotted cat, swift and fierce, that stalks its prey.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- leopard ×4
- leopards ×2
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Song of Songs 4:8
With me from Lebanon, bride, with me from Lebanon you will come; you will look from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.
- Isaiah 11:6
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fattened animal together, and a little boy will lead them.
- Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them, a wolf of the steppes will devastate them, a leopard is watching over their cities; everyone who goes out of them will be torn to pieces, for their transgressions are many, their apostasies are mighty.
- Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Cushite change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then you also will be able to do good, you who are taught to do evil.
- Hosea 13:7
And I became to them like a fierce lion; like a leopard by the road I will lurk.
- Habakkuk 1:8
And swifter than leopards are its horses, and fiercer than wolves of the evening; and its horsemen gallop, and its horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.