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Lexicon :: Strong's H5387 - nāśî'

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נָשִׂיא
Transliteration
nāśî'
Pronunciation
naw-see'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1421b,1421c

Strong’s Definitions

נָשִׂיא nâsîyʼ, naw-see'; or נָשִׂא nâsiʼ; from H5375; properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist:—captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 132x

The KJV translates Strong's H5387 in the following manner: prince (96x), captain (12x), chief (10x), ruler (6x), vapours (3x), governor (1x), chief (with H5387) (1x), clouds (1x), part (1x), prince (with H5387) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 132x
The KJV translates Strong's H5387 in the following manner: prince (96x), captain (12x), chief (10x), ruler (6x), vapours (3x), governor (1x), chief (with H5387) (1x), clouds (1x), part (1x), prince (with H5387) (1x).

  1. one lifted up, chief, prince, captain, leader

  2. rising mist, vapour

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָשִׂיא nâsîyʼ, naw-see'; or נָשִׂא nâsiʼ; from H5375; properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist:—captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.
STRONGS H5387: Abbreviations
I. נָשִׂיא 128 noun masculine one lifted up, i.e. a chief prince; — absolute נ׳ Exodus 22:27 +; construct נְשִׂיא Genesis 23:6 +; plural נְשִׂיאִים Joshua 22:32 +, נְשִׂיאִים Joshua 22:32 +, נְשִׂאִים Exodus 34:31 + 7 times, נְשִׂיאִם Genesis 17:20 + 3 times, נְשִׂאִם Exodus 35:27; construct נְשִׂיאֵי Exodus 16:22 +; suffix נְשִׂיאַי Ezekiel 45:8, נְשִׂיאֶיהָ Ezekiel 32:29, נְשִׂיאֵיהֶם Numbers 17:21, נְשִׂיאֵהֶם Numbers 17:17, etc.; — mostly in Israel:
1. בְּעַמְּךָ נ׳ of any chief man, Exodus 22:27 (E; human ruler, over against אֱלֹהִים).
2. of Solomon 1 Kings 11:34. Elsewhere only Ezekiel, P, Chronicles: —
3. of Abraham Genesis 23:6, and heads of Ishmaelite tribes Genesis 17:20; Genesis 25:16.
4. rulers of the congregation, נְשִׂיאֵי הָעֵדָה Exodus 16:22; Joshua 9:15, 18; Joshua 22:30, בָּעֵדָה הַנּ׳ Exodus 34:31, compare Exodus 35:27; Leviticus 4:22; Joshua 9:18b; Joshua 9:19, 21 (twice in verse); Joshua 17:4; Joshua 22:14 (3 times in verse); Joshua 22:32 (all P); especially
5. tribal chiefs and representatives, according to the religious organization of P, Numbers 1:16, 44; Numbers 2:3 + 57 times Numbers (especially chapters 2, 7, 34; note נְשִׂיא נְשִׂיאֵי הַלֵּוִי Numbers 3:32); compare 1 Chronicles 2:10; 1 Chronicles 4:38; 1 Chronicles 5:6; 1 Chronicles 7:40; 2 Chronicles 1:2, also 1 Kings 8:1 (probably gloss, omitted by Greek Version of the LXX Benz), 2 Chronicles 5:2.
6. in Ezekiel:
a. of Zedekiah (for מֶלֶךְ see Böhmer8K 1900, 112 ff.), Ezekiel 7:27; Ezekiel 12:10, 12; Ezekiel 21:30, + Ezekiel 19:1 (read singular Greek Version of the LXX Ew Hi Co Berthol Toy).
b. chief men of Judah Ezekiel 21:17; Ezekiel 22:6; Ezekiel 45:8, 9.
c. future Davidic king Ezekiel 34:24; Ezekiel 37:25, compare Ezekiel 44:3 (twice in verse) + 16 times Ezekiel 45, 46, 48.
d. foreign princes Ezekiel 26:16; Ezekiel 27:21; Ezekiel 30:13; Ezekiel 32:29; Ezekiel 38:2, 3; Ezekiel 39:1, 18.
7. leader of exiles returning under Cyrus, according to Ezra 1:8.
8. non-Israel chiefs in P: Genesis 34:2; Numbers 25:18; Joshua 13:21.

† II. [נָשִׂיא] noun [masculine] rising mist, vapour (Arabic bdb067201, bdb067202); — only plural נְשִׂאִים vapours, forming clouds, and portending rain, Jeremiah 10:13 = Jeremiah 51:16, Psalm 135:7, נְשִׂיאִים Proverbs 25:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

17:20; 17:20; 23:6; 23:6; 25:16; 34:2

Exodus

16:22; 16:22; 22:27; 22:27; 34:31; 34:31; 35:27; 35:27

Leviticus

4:22

Numbers

1:16; 1:44; 2:3; 3:32; 25:18

Joshua

9:15; 9:18; 9:18; 9:19; 9:21; 13:21; 17:4; 22:14; 22:30; 22:32; 22:32; 22:32

1 Kings

8:1; 11:34

1 Chronicles

2:10; 4:38; 5:6; 7:40

2 Chronicles

1:2; 5:2

Ezra

1:8

Psalms

135:7

Proverbs

25:14

Jeremiah

10:13; 51:16

Ezekiel

7:27; 12:10; 12:12; 19:1; 21:17; 21:30; 22:6; 26:16; 27:21; 30:13; 32:29; 32:29; 34:24; 37:25; 38:2; 38:3; 39:1; 39:18; 44:3; 45:8; 45:8; 45:9

H5387

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Strong's Number H5387 matches the Hebrew נָשִׂיא (nāśî'),
which occurs 37 times in 34 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27 - ‘The king will mourn,
The prince will be clothed with desolation,
And the hands of the common people will tremble.
I will do to them according to their way,
And according to what they deserve I will judge them;
Then they shall know that I am the LORD!’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:10 - “Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are among them.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:12 - “And the prince who is among them shall bear his belongings on his shoulder at twilight and go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry them out through it. He shall cover his face, so that he cannot see the ground with his eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:1 - “Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - “Cry and wail, son of man;
For it will be against My people,
Against all the princes of Israel.
Terrors including the sword will be against My people;
Therefore strike your thigh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25 - ‘Now to you, O profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:6 - “Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his power to shed blood in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:16 - ‘Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:21 - “Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your regular merchants. They traded with you in lambs, rams, and goats.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:

“I will also destroy the idols,
And cause the images to cease from Noph;[fn]
There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt;
I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:29 - “There is Edom,
Her kings and all her princes,
Who despite their might
Are laid beside those slain by the sword;
They shall lie with the uncircumcised,
And with those who go down to the Pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:24 - “And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:25 - “Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:2 - “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh,[fn] Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:3 - “and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:1 - “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh,[fn] Meshech, and Tubal;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:18 - You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them fatlings of Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:3 - “As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - “The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city’s property; and bordering on the holy district and the city’s property, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions, from the west border to the east border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:8 - “The land shall be his possession in Israel; and My princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according to their tribes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:9 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,” says the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:16 - “All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:17 - “Then it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:22 - “And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:2 - “The prince shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and stand by the gatepost. The priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings. He shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:4 - “The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:8 - “When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:10 - “The prince shall then be in their midst. When they go in, he shall go in; and when they go out, he shall go out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:12 - “Now when the prince makes a voluntary burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to the LORD, the gate that faces toward the east shall then be opened for him; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he goes out the gate shall be shut.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:16 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “If the prince gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17 - “But if he gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty, after which it shall return to the prince. But his inheritance shall belong to his sons; it shall become theirs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:18 - “Moreover the prince shall not take any of the people’s inheritance by evicting them from their property; he shall provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people may be scattered from his property.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:21 - “The rest shall belong to the prince, on one side and on the other of the holy district and of the city’s property, next to the twenty-five thousand cubits of the holy district as far as the eastern border, and westward next to the twenty-five thousand as far as the western border, adjacent to the tribal portions; it shall belong to the prince. It shall be the holy district, and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in the center.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:22 - “Moreover, apart from the possession of the Levites and the possession of the city which are in the midst of what belongs to the prince, the area between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall belong to the prince.
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