Strong’s H5215 · Hebrew

נִיר
nîyr
neer

Definition

properly, plowing, i.e. (concretely) freshly plowed land

Etymology

or נִר; from H5214 (נִיר);

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • fallow ground
  • plowing
  • tillage

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.