נָחֵת
nâchêth · H5185 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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going down, descending
Action by which humans move down from a place of higher elevation
Examples2 Kings 6:9 But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, saying, “Be careful that you do not pass this place, because the Arameans are coming down there.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲרָםAram 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- יָרַד yârad · H3381 · to go down, to come down, to fall down
- יָרַד is the most common Hebrew verb for 'go down, descend' and is semantically nearly identical to נָחֵת, though יָרַד is far more frequent in Biblical Hebrew while נָחֵת appears to be a rarer synonym.
Contrasting words 1 word
- עָלָה ʻâlâh · H5927 · to go up, to rise up, to make rise up
- עָלָה 'go up, ascend' is the direct lexical opposite of נָחֵת 'come down,' representing upward motion as opposed to downward motion.
In the other Testament 1 word
- καταβαίνω katabaínō · G2597 · to move down, to come down, to go down
- καταβαίνω is the standard Greek verb for 'come down, descend' and serves as the natural translation equivalent for נָחֵת in contexts of downward motion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Move002002001012
- נָחֵת denotes coming down, its sole occurrence at Jeremiah 21:13 rhetorically challenging "who will come down against us," tying the word to a hostile descending movement.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5185. nacheth [נָחֵת] adjective descending; — masculine plural נְחִתִּים (on form…
[נָחֵת] adjective descending; — masculine plural נְחִתִּים (on form compare Köii. 81), 2Ki 6:9 (to battle); but read probably with Th Klo Benz after נֶחְבִּים ᵐ5 hidden.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
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
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