H5156

נָחִיר

ne.chirH:N-M

nostril

nostril

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[נָחִיר noun [masculine] nostril (apparently from above √, and not connected with Arabic stab camel in wind-pipe, etc., Aramaic נְחַר kill by stabbing, in nose or throat, compare Late Hebrew נָחַר perforate, kill by stabbing, so that נָחִיר would = perforation, and נחר snort would be denominative); — only dual sf מִנְּחִירָיו יֵצֵא עָשָׁן Job 41:12 (of crocodile).


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