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Lexicon :: Strong's H5369 - nēr

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נֵר
Transliteration
nēr
Pronunciation
nare
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as נִיר (H5216)
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TWOT Reference: 1333a

Strong’s Definitions

נֵר Nêr, nare; the same as H5216; lamp; Ner, an Israelite:—Ner.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H5369 in the following manner: Ner (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H5369 in the following manner: Ner (16x).

  1. Ner = "lamp"

    1. son of Jehiel, father of Kish, and grandfather of king Saul

    2. father of Abner, the uncle of Saul

      1. perhaps the same as 1

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נֵר Nêr, nare; the same as H5216; lamp; Ner, an Israelite:—Ner.
STRONGS H5369: Abbreviations
† נֵר proper name, masculine Greek Version of the LXX Νηρ
1. father of Abner 1 Samuel 14:50; 1 Samuel 14:51; 1 Samuel 26:5; 1 Samuel 26:14; 2 Samuel 2:8; 2 Samuel 2:12; 2 Samuel 3:23; 2 Samuel 3:25; 2 Samuel 3:28; 2 Samuel 3:37; 1 Kings 2:5; 1 Kings 2:32; 1 Chronicles 26:28.
2. father of Kish 1 Chronicles 8:33; 1 Chronicles 9:36, 39.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

14:50; 14:51; 26:5; 26:14

2 Samuel

2:8; 2:12; 3:23; 3:25; 3:28; 3:37

1 Kings

2:5; 2:32

1 Chronicles

8:33; 9:36; 9:39; 26:28

H5369

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Strong's Number H5369 matches the Hebrew נֵר (nēr),
which occurs 16 times in 16 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:50 - His wife’s name was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of Saul’s army was Abner son of Ner, and Ner was Saul’s uncle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:51 - Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:5 - Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of the army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the camp, with the army encamped around him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:14 - He called out to the army and to Abner son of Ner, “Aren’t you going to answer me, Abner?” Abner replied, “Who are you who calls to the king?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:8 - Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ish-Bosheth son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:12 - Abner son of Ner, together with the men of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, left Mahanaim and went to Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:23 - When Joab and all the soldiers with him arrived, he was told that Abner son of Ner had come to the king and that the king had sent him away and that he had gone in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:25 - You know Abner son of Ner; he came to deceive you and observe your movements and find out everything you are doing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28 - Later, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:37 - So on that day all the people there and all Israel knew that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:5 - “Now you yourself know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that blood he stained the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - The LORD will repay him for the blood he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better men and more upright than he.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:33 - Ner was the father of Kish, Kish the father of Saul, and Saul the father of Jonathan, Malki-Shua, Abinadab and Esh-Baal.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:36 - and his firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:39 - Ner was the father of Kish, Kish the father of Saul, and Saul the father of Jonathan, Malki-Shua, Abinadab and Esh-Baal.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:28 - And everything dedicated by Samuel the seer and by Saul son of Kish, Abner son of Ner and Joab son of Zeruiah, and all the other dedicated things were in the care of Shelomith and his relatives.
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