Search:nurse -> NURSE
nurse
n u r s e hex:#110;#117;#114;#115;#101;
The Salt of the World?
- Nurse - n. - One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
- Nurse - n. - One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
- Nurse - n. - A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
- Nurse - n. - A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
- Nurse - n. - Either one of the nurse sharks.
- Nurse - v. t. - To nourish; to cherish; to foster
- Nurse - v. t. - To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
- Nurse - v. t. - To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
- Nurse - v. t. - To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
- Nurse - v. t. - To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
- Nurse - v. t. - To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
- Nursed - imp. & p. p. - of Nurse
- Nursehound - n. - See Houndfish.
- Nursemaid - n. - A girl employed to attend children.
- Nursepond - n. - A pond where fish are fed.
- Nurser - n. - One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
- Nurseries - pl. - of Nursery
- Nursery - n. - The act of nursing.
- Nursery - n. - The place where nursing is carried on
- Nursery - n. - The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
- Nursery - n. - A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
- Nursery - n. - The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
- Nursery - n. - That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
- Nursery - n. - That which is nursed.
- Nurseryman - n. - One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
- Nurse - n. - Either one of the nurse sharks.
- Nurse - v. t. - To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
- Sleeper - n. - A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
- Foment - v. t. - To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
- Ayah - n. - A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid.
- Nurse - v. t. - To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
- Watch - v. i. - To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.
- Matron - n. - A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.
- Dry nurse - - A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.
- Wet nurse - - A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.
- Fondle - v. - To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
- Breed - v. t. - To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
- Suckle - v. t. - To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.
- Cradle - v. t. - To nurse or train in infancy.
strongscsv:description
- H2946 טָפַח - 2946 טָפַח - טָפַח - - ṭâphach - taw-fakh' - a primitive root; or perhaps a denominative from טֵפַח, from dandling on the palms; to flatten out or extend (as a tent); figuratively, to nurse achild (as promotive of growth); span, swaddle. - Verb - heb
- H539 אָמַן - 539 אָמַן - אָמַן - - ʼâman - aw-man' - a primitive root; (Isaiah 30:21; interchangeable with אָמַן, to go to the right hand); properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain; hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, [phrase] fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right. - Verb - heb
- H540 אֲמַן - 540 אֲמַן - אֲמַן - - ʼăman - am-an' - (Aramaic) corresponding to אָמַן; {properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain}; believe, faithful, sure. - Verb - arc
- H5134 נוּק - 5134 נוּק - נוּק - - nûwq - nook - a primitive root; to suckle; nurse. - Verb - heb
- G5162 τροφός - 5162 τροφός - ΤΡΟΦΌΣ - - trophós - trof-os' - from τρέφω; a nourisher, i.e. nurse:--nurse. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H3243 יָנַק - 3243 יָנַק - יָנַק - - yânaq - yaw-nak' - a primitive root; to suck; causatively, to give milk; milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling). - Verb - heb
KJVBibleSite-master text
- Exodus 2 2:7 - Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
ותאמר אחתו אל־בת־פרעה האלך וקראתי לך אשׁה מינקת מן העברית ותינק לך את־הילד - Ruth 8 4:16 - And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
ותקח נעמי את־הילד ותשׁתהו בחיקה ותהי־לו לאמנת - 2 Samuel 10 4:4 - And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up , and fled : and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee , that he fell , and became lame . And his name was Mephibosheth.
וליהונתן בנ־שׁאול בן נכה רגלים בנ־חמשׁ שׁנים היה בבא שׁמעת שׁאול ויהונתן מיזרעאל ותשׂאהו אמנתו ותנס ויהי בחפזה לנוס ויפל ויפסח ושׁמו מפיבשׁת - Genesis 1 35:8 - But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died , and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak : and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
ותמת דברה מינקת רבקה ותקבר מתחת לבית־אל תחת האלון ויקרא שׁמו אלון בכות - 2 Chronicles 14 22:11 - But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain , and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber . So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
ותקח יהושׁבעת בת־המלך את־יואשׁ בנ־אחזיהו ותגנב אתו מתוך בני־המלך המומתים ותתן אתו ואת־מינקתו בחדר המטות ותסתירהו יהושׁבעת בת־המלך יהורם אשׁת יהוידע הכהן כי היא היתה אחות אחזיהו מפני עתליהו ולא המיתתהו
phpBible_av:text
- Exodus 2 2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
אָמַר אָחוֹת פַּרְעֹה בַּת יָלַךְ קָרָא יָנַק עִבְרִי אִשָּׁה יָנַק יֶלֶד - Ruth 8 4:16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
נׇעֳמִי לָקַח יֶלֶד שִׁית חֵיק אָמַן - Exodus 2 2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
פַּרְעֹה בַּת אָמַר יָלַךְ יֶלֶד יָלַךְ יָנַק נָתַן שָׂכָר אִשָּׁה לָקַח יֶלֶד נוּק - Genesis 1 24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
שָׁלַח רִבְקָה אָחוֹת יָנַק אַבְרָהָם עֶבֶד אֱנוֹשׁ - 2 Kings 12 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
יְהוֹשֶׁבַע בַּת מֶלֶךְ יוֹרָם אָחוֹת אֲחַזְיָה לָקַח יוֹאָשׁ בֵּן אֲחַזְיָה גָּנַב תָּוֶךְ מֶלֶךְ בֵּן מוּת סָתַר יָנַק מִטָּה חֶדֶר פָּנִים עֲתַלְיָה מוּת