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# נָגִיד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5057

**leader** — used 43 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

leader [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5057/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָגִיד: n.m. leader ruler, prince [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5057/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. leader (lit. prob. one in front), ruler, prince;—abs. נ׳ 1 S 9:16 + 31 times; cstr. נְגִיד (נְגִד) 2 K 20:5 + 6 times; pl. נְגִידִים Jb 29:10 + 3 times; נְגִידֵי 2 Ch 35:8;—ruler, prince ψ 76:13 Pr 28:16 Jb 29:10; 31:37 (in sim.). Especially of king of Isr.: of Saul מָשַׁח לְנ׳ עַל (+ acc. pers.), 1 S 9:16 (subj. proph.), cf. of Sol., subj. people, 1 Ch 29:22; 1 S 10:1 (subj. י׳); of David צִוָּהוּ לְנ׳ עַל 1 S 13:14; 25:30, צִוָּהוּ נ׳ עַל 2 S 6:21 (in these י׳ subj.), היה לנ׳ על 5:2, היה נ׳ על 7:8 1 Ch 11:2; 17:7; cf. also 5:2 2 Ch 6:5; of David also נָתַן נ׳ לְ׳ Is 55:4; of Sol. צִוָּה אֹתוֹ לִהְיוֹת נ׳ על 1 K 1:35 (י׳ subj.); of Jerob. נתן נ׳ על (+ acc. pers.) 1 K 14:7 (י׳ subj.); so 16:2 of Baasha; of Hezekiah נְ׳ עַמִּי 2 K 20:5; הֶעֱמִיד לְנ׳ בְּאֶחָיו (+ acc. pers.) 2 Ch 11:22 (of Abijah, subj. Rehob.); of Judah 1 Ch 28:4. of a foreign ruler or prince Ez 28:2 Dn 9:25, 26. the title of some high official connected with the temple Je 20:1 (of Pashḥur) וְהוּא פָקִיד נָגִיד בבית י׳ and he was prince-overseer in, etc. (for פ׳ see 29:26); hence נ׳ בית האלהים 1 Ch 9:11 2 Ch 31:13; 35:8 (three נגידי ב׳ ה׳, including the high-priest), Ne 11:11; of high-priest Dn 11:22 נ׳ בְּרִית. ruler in other capacities (late): of tribe 1 Ch 27:16 2 Ch 19:11; of Ḳoraḥites 9:20; of Aaronite warriors 1 Ch 12:28; of division of army 1 Ch 13:1; 27:4 2 Ch 11:11 (commandant of fortress), 32:21 (in Assyrian army: ‖ שַׂר); of temple-treasuries 1 Ch 26:24, cf. 2 Ch 31:12; נ׳ הבית 2 Ch 28:7 (i.e. of palace?). princely things, pl. abstr. Pr 8:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 42 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ruler (13); leader (5); a leader (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 76:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.13/#tree)

יִ֭בְצֹר ר֣וּחַ נְגִידִ֑ים נ֝וֹרָ֗א לְמַלְכֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* he.humbles \[the\].spirit of.rulers \[he.is\].to.be.feared by.\[the\] kings of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* He minisheth the spirit of princes; He is terrible to the kings of the earth.

[Job 31:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.37/#tree)

מִסְפַּ֣ר צְ֭עָדַי אַגִּידֶ֑נּוּ כְּמוֹ־נָ֝גִ֗יד אֲקָרֲבֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* the.number my.steps my I will.tell.to.him like a.chief I will.approach.him

*JPS 1917:* I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5057.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5057/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).