5244. nemalah

Strong's Concordance

nemalah: an ant

Original Word: נְמָלָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: nemalah
Phonetic Spelling: (nem-aw-law')
Definition: an ant

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
an ant
NASB Translation
ant (1), ants (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נְמָלָה noun feminine of individual meaning (Lag^{BN 81}) ant (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic (noun of individual meaning of ); Syriac ); — absolute ׳נ Proverbs 6:8; plural הַנְּמָלִים Proverbs 30:25.

נמר (√ of following, meaning dubious; possibly compare Assyrian namâru, shine, gleam (from glossy coat of panther and leopard), [see Arabic pardus, and limpidus, purus (of water; compare below נמרים)] so Hom^{NS 294 f.}; ag. this Nö^{ZMG xl (1886), 736} Schw^{Idioticon 121}; נָמֵר is comm. Sem.: Assyrian nimru Dl^{HWB 468}; Arabic , Lane²⁸⁵³; Ethiopic Syriac , ᵑ7 נִמְרָא; Late Hebrew נָמֵר).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

ant

Feminine from namal; an ant (probably from its almost bisected form) -- ant.

see HEBREW namal

Forms and Transliterations

הַ֭נְּמָלִים הנמלים נְמָלָ֥ה נמלה han·nə·mā·lîm Hannemalim hannəmālîm nə·mā·lāh nemaLah nəmālāh

Englishman's Concordance

Proverbs 6:6
HEB: נְמָלָ֥ה עָצֵ֑ל רְאֵ֖ה
NAS: Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe
KJV: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider
INT: the ant sluggard Observe

Proverbs 30:25
HEB: הַ֭נְּמָלִים עַ֣ם לֹא־
NAS: The ants are not a strong people,
KJV: The ants [are] a people not strong,
INT: the ants people are not

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5244
2 Occurrences

han·nə·mā·lîm — 1 Occ.
nə·mā·lāh — 1 Occ.