Word

נָחָשׁ

Nâchâsh · H5176 · Hebrew · proper noun · 9 occurrences

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This name belongs to 4 people

Nahashking3 verses
Nahashfirst named in 2 Samuel 10:23 verses
Nahashfather of Abigail1 verse
Nahashfirst named in 2 Samuel 17:271 verse

Meanings

Nahash

A man who was king of Ammon in the time of Saul

Examples
1 Samuel 11:1 Now Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us and we will serve you.”
1 Samuel 11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “I will make it with you on this condition, that I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you, and thereby I will inflict a disgrace on all Israel.”
1 Samuel 12:12 “But when you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon was coming against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us!’ Yet the LORD your God was your king.
Nahash

A man who was the father of Abigail and Zeruiah

Examples
2 Samuel 17:25 Absalom put Amasa in command of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who had relations with Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 2 groups

מֶלֶךְking 2
עַמּוֹנִיAmmonite 2

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

מוּתto die 1
אָמַרto say 1
עָלָהto go up 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵלto, toward 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 3
בַּתdaughter 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Small Animals001001002003: This entry carries no independent "Small Animals" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of this lexeme (e.g. 1 Samuel 11:1-2, 2 Samuel 10:2) is the personal name Nahash, not an animal term. The domain is bundle-shared with the identically-spelled common noun נָחָשׁ ("serpent," נָחָשׁ (nâchâsh, H5175)).
Names of People003001007: נָחָשׁ, "Nahash," names both the Ammonite king who besieged Jabesh-gilead (1 Samuel 11:1-2) and the father of Abigail and Zeruiah, David's sisters (2 Samuel 17:25), functioning as a personal name.
Names of Locations003001010: This entry carries no independent "Names of Locations" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of this lexeme (e.g. 1 Samuel 11:1-2, 2 Samuel 10:2) is the personal name Nahash, borne by an Ammonite king, not a place name. The domain is bundle-shared with the lexeme's own broader entry.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5176. Nachash II. נָחָשׁ proper name, masculine 1. king of Ammon 1Sa 11:1 (twice in…

H5176. Nachash
II. נָחָשׁ proper name, masculine 1. king of Ammon 1Sa 11:1 (twice in verse); 1Sa 11:2; 1Sa 12:12; 2Sa 10:2; 1Ch 19:1-2, perhaps also 2Sa 17:27; ᵐ5 Ναας.
2 father of Abigail and Zeruiah 2Sa 17:25, si vera lectio: ᵐ5 Ναας, but ᵐ5L Ιεσσαι (compare 1Ch 2:16); WeGeschichte. 2. 57 Anm. 1 Löhr defend נחשׁ; dubious WeSm HPS.
3 giving name to a city, נ ׳עִיר 1Ch 4:12, ᵐ5 πόλεως Ναας; ᵐ5L Ηρναας.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0