English Bible words starting with N
243 meanings beginning with N, in alphabetical order. This is page 1 of 3. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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Naam1 word
naamah1 word
Naaman2 words
Naarah1 word
Naarai1 word
Naaran1 word
nabal1 word
Naboth1 word
nachor1 word
- naḥorנָחוֹרNahor, Abraham's grandfather: the son of Serug and father of Terah, one link in the family line Genesis runs from Shem down to Abraham
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- Nahor, Abraham's brother: the son of Terah who stayed in the north and became the ancestor of Rebekah, of Laban, and of Israel's Aramean relatives
- naḥorנָחוֹרNahor, Abraham's grandfather: the son of Serug and father of Terah, one link in the family line Genesis runs from Shem down to Abraham
Nacon1 word
Nadab1 word
Naggai1 word
Nahaliel1 word
Nahalol1 word
Naham1 word
Nahamani1 word
Naharai1 word
nahash1 word
- naḥashנָחָשׁNahash: a man's name, carried above all by the king of Ammon who besieged Jabesh-gilead in Saul's day and whose son later insulted David's envoys.
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- Ir-nahash: a town in Judah named once in the family records of Chronicles, its site unknown.
- naḥashנָחָשׁNahash: a man's name, carried above all by the king of Ammon who besieged Jabesh-gilead in Saul's day and whose son later insulted David's envoys.
Nahath1 word
Nahbi1 word
nahor2 words
- NachōrΝαχώρNahornot studied yet
- naḥorנָחוֹרNahor, Abraham's grandfather: the son of Serug and father of Terah, one link in the family line Genesis runs from Shem down to Abraham
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- Nahor, Abraham's brother: the son of Terah who stayed in the north and became the ancestor of Rebekah, of Laban, and of Israel's Aramean relatives
Nahshon2 words
Nahum2 words
nail6 words
- yatedיָתֵדa peg, pin, or stake: a pointed length of wood or metal driven in to hold something fast or to hang something on
- hēlosἧλοςnailnot studied yet
- masmerמַסְמֵרnailnot studied yet
- prosēloōπροσηλόωto nailnot studied yet
- tepharטְפַרnail/clawnot studied yet
nail to1 word
Nain1 word
Naioth1 word
naive1 word
- petiפֶּתִיa person whose mind and loyalties are still open and unformed: naive and easily led, yet teachable, the raw material wisdom hopes to shape.
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- naive openness itself, treated as a quality: the untaught, gullible state the simple person needs to leave behind.
- petiפֶּתִיa person whose mind and loyalties are still open and unformed: naive and easily led, yet teachable, the raw material wisdom hopes to shape.
naivite1 word
naked4 words
- gumnosγυμνόςnaked: without covering, whether stripped bare, poorly clothed, or laid open to view
- aromעָרוֹםuncovered: stripped of clothing or protection, from total nakedness down to having too little to wear
- eromעֵירֹםnaked in a way that is bad news: exposed, defenseless, destitute, or shamed
- ma'aromמַעֲרֹםnakednot studied yet
nakedness6 words
- ervahעֶרְוָהnakedness: the exposed private parts of the body, and by extension the shame, vulnerability, or indecency that exposure brings
- eromעֵירֹםnaked in a way that is bad news: exposed, defenseless, destitute, or shamed
- eryahעֶרְיָהnakednessnot studied yet
- gumnotēsγυμνότηςnakednessnot studied yet
- ma'orמָעוֹרnakednessnot studied yet
name9 words
- onomaὄνομαa name: the word by which a person, place, or thing is identified, which in the New Testament regularly stands for the person's whole self, their authority, and their publicly known standing.
- shemשֵׁםa name: the word a person, place, or thing is called by, which in the Bible stands for who that person really is and how they endure in the world.
- qaraקָרָאto raise the voice toward someone: to call, summon, invoke, name, proclaim, or read aloud
- kaleōκαλέωto give someone or something a name, or to address them by a name or title
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- to summon someone to come, or to invite them as a guest
- God's call: the act by which God summons a person into salvation, into belonging to him, and into a way of life
- epikaleōἐπικαλέωto call upon: to address someone directly, above all to invoke God or the Lord by name in prayer and worship
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- to name or nickname: to give someone an added name, or (in the passive) to be known by that name
- to appeal: to formally invoke the judgment of a higher authority, above all a Roman citizen's appeal to Caesar
named1 word
Naomi1 word
Naphath1 word
Naphish1 word
naphtali2 words
Naphtuhim1 word
Narcissus1 word
nard2 words
narrative1 word
narrow4 words
- thlibōθλίβωto press physically: to squeeze or crowd something so that it is pinched tight
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- to afflict: to bear down on someone with hardship, trouble, or persecution, like a weight pressing from outside
- tsarצַרnarrow and tight, and so the pressure of being hemmed in: distress, trouble, straits
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- an enemy: one who acts with hostility, an opponent or foe
- stenosστενόςnarrow: tight enough that getting through is restricted and takes effort
- atamאָטַםto shut an opening tight: to close off an ear or the lips, or to build a window closed rather than open
- thlibōθλίβωto press physically: to squeeze or crowd something so that it is pinched tight
Nathan2 words
Nathan-melech1 word
Nathanael1 word
nation7 words
- laosλαόςa people: a body of people bound together as one, set apart from those around them
- amעַםa people: a body of persons bound together as one community by shared descent, land, and loyalty
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- kinsman, blood relative: the members of one's own family or clan
- ethnosἔθνοςa people group bound together as a body: a nation; in the plural and from a Jewish vantage point, the other nations, that is, the Gentiles
- goyגּוֹיa nation: a people group seen as a political and territorial body, with its own land, government, and identity
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- the nations: the peoples other than Israel, the gentiles, often pictured as hostile to God and his people
- Goyim: used as a proper name, a place or political grouping called "Nations," not the common word for a people
- genosγένοςa group that belongs together by common origin: offspring, a people, or a kind of thing
nations3 words
- ethnosἔθνοςa people group bound together as a body: a nation; in the plural and from a Jewish vantage point, the other nations, that is, the Gentiles
- ummahאֻמָּהa nation: one distinct people, marked out by descent and homeland, among the many that a world empire rules
- ummahאֻמָּהa people group held together by common descent: a clan-sized branch of one family, or a whole people among the peoples of the world
native2 words
native land1 word
native-born1 word
nativity1 word
natural3 words
- phusisφύσιςwhat a person or thing is by birth or natural growth: one's native descent or inborn condition
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- the regular, established order of things: the way the world, or a society, is ordinarily arranged
- the essential being of someone or something: what it truly and intrinsically is
- a kind or species: a class of living creatures
- psuchikosψυχικόςdescribing a person, a body, or a way of thinking that runs on ordinary human life alone, with nothing of God's Spirit in it
- phusikosφυσικόςnaturalnot studied yet
- phusisφύσιςwhat a person or thing is by birth or natural growth: one's native descent or inborn condition
nature2 words
- hupostasisὑπόστασιςthe real being or substance of something: what it actually is beneath how it appears
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- a firm, settled confidence: assurance held onto without wavering
- an undertaking or venture being carried through: a concrete plan one has committed to
- phusisφύσιςwhat a person or thing is by birth or natural growth: one's native descent or inborn condition
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- the regular, established order of things: the way the world, or a society, is ordinarily arranged
- the essential being of someone or something: what it truly and intrinsically is
- a kind or species: a class of living creatures
- hupostasisὑπόστασιςthe real being or substance of something: what it actually is beneath how it appears
navel1 word
navy1 word
Nazareth3 words
nazirite1 word
- nazirנָזִירa Nazirite: a person consecrated to God by a vow of abstinence, marked by uncut hair and by staying away from wine and from the dead
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- a distinguished one: a person singled out and set above his fellows, a prince or elect one
- an unpruned vine: a grapevine left untended and uncut during the fallow year
- nazirנָזִירa Nazirite: a person consecrated to God by a vow of abstinence, marked by uncut hair and by staying away from wine and from the dead
Nazirite vow1 word
Neah1 word
near4 words
- plēsionπλησίονnear, close by: right next to a place
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- neighbor: any fellow human being one is called to love as oneself
- engusἐγγύςnearnot studied yet
- qarovקָרֹבnear: close by, whether in space, in time, in family, or in relationship
- etselאֵצֶלbeside: at the side of, right next to, close by
- plēsionπλησίονnear, close by: right next to a place
near of kin1 word
- she'erשְׁאֵרa blood relative: a member of one's own family, near of kin
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- flesh: the meat of a living body, whether the food it provides or one's own physical frame
- she'erשְׁאֵרa blood relative: a member of one's own family, near of kin
nearer2 words
Neariah1 word
nearly1 word
nearness1 word
Nebai1 word
Nebaioth1 word
Neballat1 word
Nebat1 word
Nebo1 word
Nebu-sar-sekim2 words
Nebuchadnezzar2 words
Nebushazban1 word
Nebuzaradan1 word
necessarily2 words
necessary2 words
- anagkaiosἀναγκαῖοςnecessary: something that cannot be done without, or that duty, circumstances, or plain logic require
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- closely bound: an intimate friend or relative, tied to a person by the bonds of kinship or deep friendship
- epitēdeiosἐπιτήδειοςnecessarynot studied yet
- anagkaiosἀναγκαῖοςnecessary: something that cannot be done without, or that duty, circumstances, or plain logic require
necessity2 words
- chreiaχρείαneed: the lack of something necessary, the thing lacked, or the matter that must be attended to
- anagkēἀνάγκηnecessity: something that must be so or must be done, whether it follows by reason, is owed as a duty, or presses on a person as a compulsion
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- distress: the pressure of hard and painful circumstances; a tight, threatening situation that hems a person in
neck7 words
- trachēlosτράχηλοςthe neck: the outward part of the body joining head to shoulders, named in the New Testament as the place a millstone is hung, an embrace lands, a yoke is laid, or a life is put on the line
- tsavvarצַוָּארthe neck: the part of the body joining the head to the shoulders
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- a necklace: an ornament worn around the neck
- orephעֹרֶףthe back of the neck; the nape, the side a person shows by turning away
- garonגָּרוֹןthe throat: the front of the neck, both the passage inside that carries voice and drink and the outside that a necklace circles
- gargerotגַּרְגְּרוֹתnecknot studied yet
necklace3 words
Neco1 word
necromancer2 words
- ovאוֹבa means of consulting the dead: the summoned spirit, the ritual pit or instrument used to reach it, or the medium who conducts the rite
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- a wineskin: a leather bag for holding wine
- yiddoniיִדְּעֹנִיa knowing one: a ghost consulted because it is thought to know hidden things, or the person who hosts it and speaks for it
- ovאוֹבa means of consulting the dead: the summoned spirit, the ritual pit or instrument used to reach it, or the medium who conducts the rite
Nedabiah1 word
need8 words
- chreiaχρείαneed: the lack of something necessary, the thing lacked, or the matter that must be attended to
- husterēmaὑστέρημαa lack: something still missing from a required or expected whole, a shortfall waiting to be made up
- maḥsorמַחְסוֹרwhat a person lacks: a need waiting to be supplied, or the poverty that going short settles into
- prosdeōπροσδέωto neednot studied yet
- chrēzōχρῄζωto neednot studied yet
needle2 words
needlessly1 word
needlework2 words
needy3 words
- aniעָנִיafflicted and lowly: a person bowed down by hardship, poverty, or oppression, and so dependent on God for help
- evyonאֶבְיוֹןdestitute: someone with nothing, so poor they depend on others or on God to survive
- dalדַּלlow, weak, of little account: a person or group reduced in body, standing, or means, and so easily pushed aside
negev1 word
- negevנֶגֶבthe Negev: the dry, semi-desert region of southern Judah
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- the south: the compass direction, or the side of something that faces it
- negevנֶגֶבthe Negev: the dry, semi-desert region of southern Judah
neglect9 words
- egkataleipōἐγκαταλείπωto abandon someone: to walk away and leave a person stranded in the very trouble they needed you for
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- to leave someone or something remaining: to let a survivor or a remainder be left when the rest is gone
- parerchomaiπαρέρχομαιto pass by a duty or command, and so to neglect it or break it
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- to go past someone or something in space; to pass by, come up to, or push past
- to pass away, come to an end, cease to exist; (of time) to be over
- epilanthanōἐπιλανθάνωto forget: to let someone or something drop out of mind and care, ranging from a simple lapse of memory to deliberate disregard
- pariēmiπαρίημιto neglectnot studied yet
- paraפָּרַעto let loose or set free from restraint: to unbind, release, or let go of what was being held in check
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- to lead, to take the lead (a contested sense resting on a single verse)
- egkataleipōἐγκαταλείπωto abandon someone: to walk away and leave a person stranded in the very trouble they needed you for
Nehemiah1 word
Nehum1 word
Nehushta1 word
Nehushtan1 word
Neiel1 word
neigh1 word
- tsahalצָהַלto let out a loud, piercing cry: a horse's neigh, or a human shout of joy or alarm
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- to make something gleam: to give a face the bright sheen of oil
- tsahalצָהַלto let out a loud, piercing cry: a horse's neigh, or a human shout of joy or alarm
neighbor6 words
- plēsionπλησίονneighbor: any fellow human being one is called to love as oneself
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- near, close by: right next to a place
- re'aרֵעַthe other person you are associated with: a friend, a fellow member of your community, or simply the other party, with the closeness left to the setting.
- qarovקָרֹבnear: close by, whether in space, in time, in family, or in relationship
- shakhenשָׁכֵןone who dwells close by: a neighbor, or by extension an inhabitant of a place
- amitעָמִיתfellow: a member of your own community, the peer who is bound to you by the same obligations
- plēsionπλησίονneighbor: any fellow human being one is called to love as oneself
neighboring2 words
neighbors1 word
neighbour2 words
neighing1 word