Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Here is what I think of the name NAXOR. There is of course no Hebrew  
root that means 'snort'. The root NXR is a variant of NGR, NHR, NXR,  
NKR, NQR. I tend to think that the defining portion of NAXOR is XOR  
or XUR, 'noble' (see 1 R 21:8-11 etc.) It is related to HOR or HAR,  
'mountain', and KOR, 'heap'. This is, methinks, also the basic  
meaning of HARAN (AHARON?), XARAN, XIROM, XERMON, and XARMAH. In the  
variant KAR it appears in KARMEL.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:52 AM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:

> the meaning of
> the name NXWR/“Nahor”, as Abraham’s middle brother, means  
> “breathing hard”
> , “snorting”, based on the Biblical Hebrew verb NXR.