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Strong's #5246: namer (pronounced naw-mare')

from an unused root meaning properly, to filtrate, i.e. be limpid (comp 5247 and 5249); and thus to spot or stain as if by dripping; a leopard (from its stripes):--leopard.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nâmêr

1) leopard

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning properly, to filtrate, i.e. be limpid [comp H5247 and H5249]



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Song of Solomon 4:8: "from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains"
Isaiah 11:6: "also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf"
Jeremiah 5:6: "out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over"
Jeremiah 13:23: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also"
Hosea 13:7: "Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe"
Habakkuk 1:8: "Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves:"









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