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# נַחְשׁוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5177

**Naashon** — used 10 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

Naashon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5177/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַחְשׁוֹן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5177/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of aminadab, of Judah, brother-in-law of Aaron Ex 6:23 Nu 1:7; 2:3; 7:13, 17; 10;14 (all P), Ru 4:20(×2) 1 Ch 2:10, 11. 𝔊 Ναασσων (DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 15 cp. Sab. tribal name נחסן).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Nahshon (7); of Nahshon (2); \[was\] Nahshon (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 1:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.7/#tree)

לִֽיהוּדָ֕ה נַחְשׁ֖וֹן בֶּן־עַמִּינָדָֽב׃

*Word for word:* for Judah Nahshon the.son of.Amminadab

*JPS 1917:* Of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

[Ruth 4:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.20/#tree)

וְעַמִּֽינָדָב֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־נַחְשׁ֔וֹן וְנַחְשׁ֖וֹן הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־שַׂלְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Amminadab he.fathered (et) Nahshon and Nahshon he.fathered (et) Salmah

*JPS 1917:* and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5177/): 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).