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Strong's #5215: niyr (pronounced neer)

or nir {neer}; from 5214; properly, plowing, i.e. (concretely) freshly plowed land:--fallow ground, plowing, tillage.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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nı̂yr / nir

1) tillable or untilled or fallow ground

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5214



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Proverbs 13:23: "Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment."
Proverbs 21:4: "look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin."
Jeremiah 4:3: "of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns."
Hosea 10:12: "in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD,"









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