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נָצַח

nâtsach · H5329 · Hebrew · 65 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to lead, to oversee, to direct

    Action by which humans supervise, direct or oversee work (such as building or repairing) or worship (such as singing or playing instruments)

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 15:21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, to lead with lyres tuned to the sheminith.

    1 Chronicles 23:4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges,

    2 Chronicles 34:12 The men did the work faithfully with foremen over them to supervise: Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites of the sons of Merari, Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of the Kohathites, and the Levites, all who were skillful with musical instruments.

  2. perpetual, persistent

    State in which a process is never ending or changing

    Examples

    Jeremiah 8:5 “Why has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold on to deceit, They refuse to return.

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

Who or what does itSubject

8 occurrences in 2 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 6 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

59 occurrences in 1 groups

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
Control002003002007
The word describes overseeing or directing others in a task, as Levites are appointed to oversee the work of the house of the LORD and act as foremen over the workers (1 Chronicles 23:4, 2 Chronicles 34:12), tying the word to supervisory authority.
Great002001002012
This entry carries no independent "Great" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of נָצַח (e.g. 1 Chronicles 15:21, 2 Chronicles 2:17-18, the Psalm superscriptions' "for the choir director") concerns overseeing or directing, not greatness as such. The domain is bundle-shared with the lexeme's own broader sense range, illustrated at 2 Chronicles 2:17-18 (Solomon "appointed... 3,600 as overseers to make the people work").
Endure002002003001
This entry's own tagged occurrences do genuinely attest an enduring sense, as in “Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in continual apostasy?” (Jeremiah 8:5, where this lexeme renders the ongoing, enduring quality of the turning away).
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָצַחnâtsach · H5329נֶצַח netsach · H5331 · forever, forever and ever · 43×נְצַח nᵉtsach · H5330 · be preferred · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5329. natsach I. [נָצַח] verb be pre-eminent, enduring (Ecclus [Pi`el] make brilliant…
H5329. natsach
I. [נָצַח] verb be pre-eminent, enduring (Ecclus [Pi`el] make brilliant Ecclesiasticus 43:5; Ecclesiasticus 43:13 [?] (compare Oxford ed.xxxiii); Late Hebrew נָצַח conquer, etc.; Phoenician נצח, Aramaic נְצַח, shine, be illustrious, pre-eminent, victorious; Arabic be pure, reliable; Ethiopic be pure, innocent; both classes of meaning probably derived form shine, be bright, brilliant, see also Dr1Sa 15:29); —
Niph`al Participle active feminine נִצַּ֫חַת Jer 8:5 enduring (מְשֻׁבָה apostasy).
Piel = act as overseer, superintendent, director, only Chronicles and Psalm-titles; — Infinitive לְנַצֵּחַ 1Ch 15:21 1Ch 15:4t.; participle לַמְנַצֵּחַ Hab 3:19; Psa 4:1 54t. Psalms; plural מְנַצְּחִים2Ch 2:1; 2Ch 2:17; 2Ch 34:13; —
1 in building temple 2Ch 2:1; 2Ch 2:17; Ezr 3:8-9, compare 2Ch 34:12-13,.
2 in ministry of house of ׳י 1Ch 23:4.
3 in liturgical service of song, עלהֿשׁמינית, over the bass voices, leading them with כִּנֹּרוֺת 1Ch 15:21; לַמְנַצֵּחַ in titles Psalms has probably simile meaning, = musical director or choirmaster; Greek Vrss. of 2nd cent. A.D., Aq Theod Sym, and so Jerome, think of Aramaic victorious, but no clear explanation; ᵐ5 εἰς τὸ τέλος (probably לַמִּנְצָח) follows ordinary meaning of noun נֵצַח, which may be explained in eschatological sense as referring to end of age of world after Euseb Theod; or for full rendering after De; neither satisfactory. Chronicles, near in date, gives the clue which is intrinsically probably: לְ indicates, not assignment (nothing special in these Psalms to suggest it, and assignment of Psalms for such use a matter of course), but that these Psalms were taken by final editor from an older major Psalter known as the Director's Collection, compare the still earlier collections known as קרח (ל)בני (ל)אסף, (ל)דוד,. The 55 Psalms with למנצח were taken 39 from Davidic, 9 from Korahite, and 5 from Asaphic Psalters; only 2anonymous. Habakkuk 3 originally belonged to Director's Psalter. This and other Director's Psalms have musical directions in titles. The Director's Psalter was probably the prayer-book of synagogue of Greek period, presupposed by our Hab., the collection of the twelve Minor Prophets, the prophetic canon, and Daniel (see BrGen. Intr. 123).
[נְצַח] verb Hithpa. distinguish oneself (see Biblical Hebrew I. נצח); — Participle מִתְנַצַּח Dan 6:4, עַל person

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Great0 occurrencesEndure1 occurrenceControl64 occurrences

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

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