Lexical Summary minharah: perhaps a cave, stronghold Original Word: מִנְהָרָהTransliteration: minharah Phonetic Spelling: (min-haw-raw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: perhaps a cave, stronghold Meaning: a channel, fissure, a cavern Strong's Concordance den From nahar; properly, a channel or fissure, i.e. (by implication) a cavern -- den. see HEBREW nahar Brown-Driver-Briggs H4492. minharah [מִנְהָרָה] noun feminine dub., only plural בֶּהָרִים אֲשֶׁר הַמִּנְהָרוֺת Judges 6:2 (+ הַמְּעָרוֺת caves, הַמְּצָדוֺת strong-hold) — (clearly, si vera lectio, from a check נהר, but with what meaning? SchuJob 49 compare Arabic , [which means a place hollowed out by water], and rend. crevices, ravines, so Thes and others; Ra Ki WetzstHauran, 46 think of caves with a light-opening; R. Levi ben Gerson beacons, i.e. towers for fire-signals, GFM; but II. נהר late in Hebrew; ᵐ5 τρυμαλίας, ᵑ9 antra; Bu thinks הַמְּעָרוֺת a gloss explaining ׳הַמִּנ). |
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