נֶצַח
netsach · H5331 · Hebrew · 43 occurrences
Meanings
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forever
Poetic term: a long duration of time that is or may seem unending, usually in the future
Examples2 Samuel 2:26 Then Abner called to Joab and said, “Should the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that it will be bitter in the end? So how long will you refrain from telling the people to turn back from pursuing their kinsmen?”
Proverbs 21:28 A false witness will perish, But a person who listens will speak forever.
Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the disgrace of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.
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forever and ever
Poetic term: an extremely long duration of time that is or may seem unending, usually in the future
ExamplesIsaiah 34:10 It will not be extinguished night or day; Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will be desolate; None will pass through it forever and ever.
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glory, splendor, greatness
The characteristics that make humans or deities have a high status in the eyes of others
Examples1 Samuel 15:29 “Also the Glory of Israel will not lie nor change His mind; for He is not a man, that He would change His mind.”
1 Chronicles 29:11 “Yours, LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and on the earth; Yours is the dominion, LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.
Lamentations 3:18 So I say, “My strength has failed, And so has my hope from the LORD.”
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- יִשְׂרָאֵלIsrael 1
- נֶצַחforever 1
- יmy 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אָבַדto perish, to destroy 1
- שָׁקַרto act falsely 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָּyou 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
34 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 62
- עַדto, as far as, until 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מַשּׁוּאָהruins 1
- נֶצַחforever 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- τέλος télos · G5056 · end, outcome, result
- Greek τέλος emphasizes the endpoint or termination of a process, while Hebrew נֶצַח focuses on perpetuity or endurance; both converge on 'end' as a temporal terminus but with opposing orientations (finality versus continuance).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Time002002002010
- נֶצַח describes perpetuity or enduring time, illustrated at Job 34:36 ("perpetuity") and Psalm 49:20 ("they will never again see the light" — literally "forever/perpetuity").
- Great002001002012
- The word can also denote enduring strength, splendor, or preeminence, as the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind (1 Samuel 15:29), a broader evaluative sense than plain duration.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5331. netsach I. נֵ֫צַח noun masculineLam 3:18 eminence, enduring, everlastingness,…
I. נֵ֫צַח noun masculineLam 3:18 eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity (לנצח Ecclus 40:14 as 4 below); — נֵ֫צַח 1Sa 15:29 1Sa 15:3t.; נֶ֫צַח Amo 1:11 36t.; suffix נִצְחִי Lam 3:18; plural נְצָחִים 34:10; —
1 eminence: ישׂראל נצח the Eminence of Israel (׳י) 1Sa 15:29 (DrSam. 98 glory of Israel); attribute of God 1Ch 29:11 (|| תפארת הוד, et al.).
2 enduring of life, and so life itself as enduring: נִצְחִי אָבַד Lam 3:18 my endurance doth vanish (De sap of life, see II. ׳נ).
3 endurance in time: נ ׳משׁאות Psa 74:3 perpetual desolations; ׳לנ יְדַבֵּר Pro 21:28 speaketh continually (?; see Toy); ׳עדנֿ Psa 49:20 unto the end (a long duration), so Job 34:36.
4 everlastingness, ever, usually לָנֶצַח for ever, 2Sa 2:26; Isa 13:20; Isa 25:8; Isa 28:28; Isa 33:20; Isa 57:16; Jer 3:5; Jer 50:39; Amo 8:7; Hab 1:4; Psa 9:7; Psa 9:19; Psa 10:11; Psa 44:24; Psa 49:10; Psa 52:7; Psa 68:17; Psa 74:1; Psa 74:10; Psa 74:19; Psa 77:9; Psa 79:5; Psa 89:47; Psa 103:9; Job 4:20; Job 14:20; Job 20:7; Job 23:7; Job 36:7; Lam 5:20; נצחים לנצח (compare עולמים עולם) Isa 34:10; seldom abbreviated נֶצַח Amo 1:11 (ᵐ5 ׳לָנ We Now GASm), Jer 15:18; Psa 13:2; Psa 16:11.
II. נצח (√ of following; compare Arabic , Lane2806, 2807 sprinkle; BaES 52 compare Ethiopic spargere, aspergere Di677 (rare)).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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