# H5216 נִיר

נִיר (nîyr), Strong’s H5216: a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively) KJV: candle, lamp, light.. Occurs 48 times.

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

KJV: candle, lamp, light.

Derived from [נִיר nîyr](https://besorah.bible/word/H5214) (to till the soil)

Occurs 48 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נִיר n.[m.] lamp
- נֵר n.m
- נֵר 43 n.m. lamp

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 25:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=37) — You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
- [Exodus 27:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=20) — “You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp…
- [Exodus 30:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=7) — Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
- [Exodus 30:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=8) — When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your…
- [Exodus 35:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/35?v=14) — the lamp stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light;
- [Exodus 37:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/37?v=23) — He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.
- [Exodus 39:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/39?v=37) — the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
- [Exodus 40:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/40?v=4) — You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light…
- [Exodus 40:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/40?v=25) — He lit the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
- [Leviticus 24:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/24?v=2) — “Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn…