Reference: Nimrah
Easton
pure, a city on the east of Jordan (Nu 32:3); probably the same as Beth-nimrah (Jos 13:27). It has been identified with the Nahr Nimrin, at one of the fords of Jordan, not far from Jericho.
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Fausets
("leopard", or "clear water".)
1. Nu 32:3,36, a city in "the land of Jazer and of Gilead." (See BETHNIMRAH.) Now Nimrun; E. of Jordan, E.N.E. from Jericho. The name is from leopards infesting the thick wood between the inner and outer banks of the Jordan, which overflows at times into that intermediate space and drives the wild beast out of its lair (Jer 49:19; 50:44). In Isa 15:6 "the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate ... there is no green thing"; even the city Nimrah, whose name means "limpid waters," which came down from the mountains of Gilead near Jordan, is without water, so that herbage is gone (Jer 48:34), i.e. "the well watered pastures of Nimrah shall be desolate."
2. Another Nimrah is in Moab, near the wady Beni Hammed, E. of the Dead Sea near its southern end, Khirbet en (ruins of) Nemeireh.
3. The plural, NIMRIM, thus would comprise both the N. of Gad and the N. of Moab. Bethnimra is perhaps Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing (Joh 1:28); for the pure water of Bethnimra, its situation in the center of "the region round about Jordan," and its accessibleness from "Jerusalem and Judaea" all accord. Tradition makes it the scene of Israel's "passage" over Jordan; this would cause Bethabara ("house of passage") to be substituted for Bethnimra.(See BETHNIMRA; BETHABARA.) The Septuagint has Bethanabra, a link between the two names. Bethbara is distinct (Jg 7:24). (See BETHBARA.)
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Hastings
Smith
Nim'rah
(limpid, pure), a place mentioned by this name in
only. If it is the same as BETU-NIMRAH, ver. 36, it belonged to the tribe of Gad. It was ten miles north of the Dead Sea and three miles east of the Jordan, in the hill of Nimrim.