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. Joshua 9:15 נְשִׂיאֵ֖י ne.si.'Ei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.

  2. Joshua 9:18 נְשִׂיאֵ֣י ne.si.'Ei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by Jehovah, the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.

  3. Joshua 9:18 הַנְּשִׂיאִֽים׃ ha.ne.si.'Im · A person, place or thing

    And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by Jehovah, the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.

  4. Joshua 9:19 הַנְּשִׂיאִים֙ ha.ne.si.'Im · A person, place or thing

    But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by Jehovah, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

  5. Joshua 9:21 הַנְּשִׂיאִ֖ים ha.ne.si.'Im · A person, place or thing

    And the princes said unto them, Let them live: so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken unto them.

  6. Joshua 9:21 הַנְּשִׂיאִֽים׃ ha.ne.si.'Im · A person, place or thing

    And the princes said unto them, Let them live: so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken unto them.

  7. Joshua 13:21 נְשִׂיאֵ֣י ne.si.'Ei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, that dwelt in the land.

  8. Joshua 17:4 הַנְּשִׂיאִים֙ ha.ne.si.'Im · A person, place or thing

    And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren: therefore according to the commandment of Jehovah he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.

  9. Joshua 22:14 נְשִׂאִים֙ ne.si.'Im · A person, place or thing

    and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

  10. Joshua 22:14 נָשִׂ֨יא na.Si' · A person, place or thing

    and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

  11. Joshua 22:14 נָשִׂ֤יא na.Si' · A person, place or thing

    and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

  12. Joshua 22:30 וּנְשִׂיאֵ֨י u.ne.si.'Ei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them well.

  13. Joshua 22:32 וְהַנְּשִׂיאִ֡ים ve.ha.ne.si.'Im · A person, place or thing

    And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.

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