נֵרNêr

Meanings

Same root

• נִירnîyr · H5216a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively)

Where it appears

Appears 16 times in the Bible.

• 1 Samuel 14:50 Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz. The commander of Saul’s army was Abner, the son of Saul’s uncle Ner.
• 1 Samuel 14:51 Saul’s father, Kish, and Abner’s father, Ner, were both sons of Abiel.
• 1 Samuel 26:5 David slipped over to Saul’s camp one night to look around. Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army, were sleeping inside a ring formed by the slumbering warriors.
• 1 Samuel 26:14 Then he shouted down to the soldiers and to Abner son of Ner, “Wake up, Abner!” “Who is it?” Abner demanded.
• 2 Samuel 2:8 But Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, had already gone to Mahanaim with Saul’s son Ishbosheth.
• 2 Samuel 2:12 One day Abner led Ishbosheth’s troops from Mahanaim to Gibeon.