Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #5244 - נְמָלָה nemalah

Original Word:	נְמָלָה
Transliteration:	nemalah
Phonetic Spelling:	(nem-aw-law')
Definition:	an ant
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

ant

Feminine from namal; an ant (probably from its almost bisected form) -- ant.

see HEBREW namal

Englishman's Concordance

1) ant
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5243
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1371a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נְמָלָהnoun feminine of individual meaning (Lag^{BN 81}) ant (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic

(noun of individual meaning of

); Syriac

); — absolute ׳נProverbs 6:8; plural הַנְּמָלִיםProverbs 30:25.

נמר (√ of following, meaning dubious; possibly compare Assyrian namâru, shine, gleam (from glossy coat of panther and leopard), [see Arabic pardus, and limpidus, purus (of water; compare below נמרים)] so Hom^{NS 294 f.}; ag. this Nö^{ZMG xl (1886), 736} Schw^{Idioticon 121}; נָמֵר is comm. Sem.: Assyrian nimru Dl^{HWB 468}; Arabic , Lane²⁸⁵³; Ethiopic Syriac , ᵑ7נִמְרָא; Late Hebrew נָמֵר).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5244. נְמָלִים (nemalah) — 2 Occurrences

Proverbs 6:6
HEB: נְמָלָ֥ה עָצֵ֑ל רְאֵ֖ה
NAS: Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe
KJV: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider
INT:the ant sluggard Observe

Proverbs 30:25
HEB: הַ֭נְּמָלִים עַ֣ם לֹא־
NAS:The ants are not a strong people,
KJV:The ants [are] a people not strong,
INT:the ants people are not

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