נִיר nîyr

Meaning

a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively)

In the King James Version: candle, lamp, light.

Derivation: or נִר; also נֵיר; or נֵר; or (feminine) נֵרָה; from a primitive root (see H5214 (נִיר); H5135 (נוּר)) properly, meaning to glisten;

Where it is used

• Exodus 25:37 Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.
• Exodus 27:20 And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
• Exodus 30:7 And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
• Exodus 30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come.
• Exodus 35:14 the lampstand for light with its accessories and lamps and oil for the light;
• Exodus 37:23 He also made its seven lamps, its wick trimmers, and trays of pure gold.
• Exodus 39:37 the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;
• Exodus 40:4 Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps.
• Exodus 40:25 and set up the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
• Leviticus 24:2 “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
• Leviticus 24:4 He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
• Numbers 4:9 They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand used for light, together with its lamps, wick trimmers, and trays, as well as the jars of oil with which to supply it.
• Numbers 8:2 “Speak to Aaron and tell him: ‘When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.’”
• Numbers 8:3 And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps facing toward the front of the lampstand, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
• 1 Samuel 3:3 Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located.
• 2 Samuel 21:17 But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel may not be extinguished.”
• 2 Samuel 22:29 For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
• 1 Kings 7:49 the lampstands of pure gold in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right side and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
• 1 Kings 11:36 I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
• 1 Kings 15:4 Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
• 2 Kings 8:19 Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
• 1 Chronicles 28:15 the weight of the gold lampstands and their lamps, including the weight of each lampstand and its lamps; the weight of each silver lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand;
• 2 Chronicles 4:20 the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
• 2 Chronicles 4:21 the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold;
• 2 Chronicles 13:11 Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
• 2 Chronicles 21:7 Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
• 2 Chronicles 29:7 They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.
• Job 18:6 The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
• Job 21:17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
• Job 29:3 when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
• Psalms 18:28 For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
• Psalms 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
• Psalms 132:17 There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
• Proverbs 6:23 For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
• Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
• Proverbs 20:20 Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
• Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
• Proverbs 21:4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart—the guides of the wicked—are sin.
• Proverbs 24:20 For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
• Proverbs 31:18 She sees that her gain is good, and her lamp is not extinguished at night.
• Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
• Zephaniah 1:12 And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
• Zechariah 4:2 “What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.