נָשִׂיא

na.si · leader

Hebrew · Strong's H5387 · Noun · Sounds like: naw-see' · 134 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • leader H5387A 130
  • mist H5387B 4

Strong's dictionary

or נָשִׂא; from נָשָׂא; properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist; captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
נָשִׂיא 128 n.m. one lifted up, i.e. a chief prince
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[נָשִׂיא] n.[m.] rising mist, vapour

Every occurrence

  1. Genesis 17:20 נְשִׂיאִם֙ ne.si.'Im · A person, place or thing

    And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

  2. Genesis 23:6 נְשִׂ֨יא ne.Si' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

  3. Genesis 25:16 נְשִׂיאִ֖ם ne.si.'Im · A person, place or thing

    these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations.

  4. Genesis 34:2 נְשִׂ֣יא ne.Si' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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