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  #5216 נִיר niyr {neer}
     or נִר nir {neer} also נֵיר neyr {nare}
     or נֵר ner {nare}
    or (fem.) nerah {nay-raw'}

 from a primitive root [see H5214; H5135] properly, meaning to
    glisten; TWOT - 1333b; n m

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) lamp

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

From a primitive root (see H5214 and H5135) properly meaning to glisten; a lamp (that is, the burner) or light (literally or figuratively):—candle, lamp, light.

—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#5216.
נֵיר
ner or
[or] נֵר
ner (632d); from an unused word; a lamp:—
NASB - lamp(18), lamps(25).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - lamp 35, candle 9, light 4; 48

candle
Job 18:6; 21:17; 29:3. Psalms 18:28. Proverbs 20:27; 24:20; 31:18. Jeremiah 25:10.

candles
Zephaniah 1:12.

lamp
Exodus 27:20. 1 Samuel 3:3. 2 Samuel 22:29. 1 Kings 15:4. Psalms 119:105; 132:17. Proverbs 6:23; 13:9; 20:20.

lamps
Exodus 25:37, 37; 30:7, 8; 35:14; 37:23; 39:37, 37; 40:4, 25. Leviticus 24:2, 4. Numbers 4:9; 8:2, 2, 3. 1 Kings 7:49. 1 Chronicles 28:15, 15, 15. 2 Chronicles 4:20, 21; 13:11; 29:7. Zechariah 4:2, 2.

light
2 Samuel 21:17. 1 Kings 11:36. 2 Kings 8:19. 2 Chronicles 21:7.