נִיר
nîr
the tillable
Strong's H5215NounHebrewTWOT 1360a

נִיר (nîr) is a Hebrew noun meaning the tillable. It appears 4 times in 3 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5215).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1360a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1360a)the tillable, untilled, fallow ground; plowing, freshly plowed land; tillage
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

נִיר noun, masculine: the tillable, untilled, fallow ground

Strong's H5215 נִיר: properly, plowing, i.e. (concretely) freshly plowed land
KJV:fallow ground, plowing, tillage.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1360: נִיר nîr — break up, freshly till; till the soil

See it in Scripture

Proverbs 13:23Jeremiah 4:3Hosea 10:12

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