STRONGS NUMBER H4492


Word Summary
minharah: perhaps a cave, stronghold
Original Word: מִנְהָרָה
Transliteration: 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 הַמִּנְהָרוֺתJudges 6:2 (+ הַמְּעָרוֺתcaves, הַמְּצָדוֺתstrong-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; ᵐ5τρυμαλίας, ᵑ9antra; Bu thinks הַמְּעָרוֺת‎ a gloss explaining ׳הַמִּנ‎).