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# נֹכַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5227

**front** — used 25 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

front [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5227/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹ֫כַח: subst. front prep. adv. adv. prep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5227/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** subst. front, always in prep. or adv. phrases, with sf. נִכְחוֹ Ex 14:2; Ez 46:9:— as adv. acc. in front of, opposite to, Ex 14:2 נִכְחוֹ תַּחֲנוּ, 26:35 the candlestick נֹכַח הַשֻּׁלְחָן, 40:24, Jos 18:17 (in the ‖ 15:7, נֹכַח לְ: v. לְ 5 c), 1 K 20:29 וַיַּחֲנוּ אֵלֶּה נֹכַח אֵלֶּה, 22:35 (= 2 Ch 18:34), Est 5:1(×2); Ez 46:9 Qr כִּי נִכְחוֹ יֵצֵא shall go out in front of himself, i.e. straightforward; cf. נֶגְדּוֹ, נֶגֶד 1 a (b). Fig. Pr 5:21 כִּי נֹכַח עֵינֵי י׳ דַּרְכֵי אִישׁ in the sight of י׳’s eyes are, etc., Ju 18:6 נֹכַח י׳ דַּרְכְּכֶם before י׳ is your way, i.e. under his eye and favourable regard. In the phr. נֹכַח פְּנֵי, Je 17:16 מוֹצָא שְׂפָתַי נֹכַח פָּנֶיךָ הָיָה was before thy face, La 2:19, Ez 14:3 מִכְשׁוֹל עֲוֹנָם נָֽתְנוּ נֹכַח פְּנֵיהֶם (i.e. they contemplate it with pleasure), v 4, 7. combined with preps.:— אֶל־נֹכַח, Nu 19:4 וְהִזָּה אל־נ׳ פני אהל מועד and sprinkle it towards the front of, etc. לְנֹכַח: (a) as adv. Pr 4:25 עיניך לנ׳ יביטו let thine eyes look to the front or right on (‖ ועפעפיך יַיְשִׁרוּ נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ); (b) as prep. Gn 30:38 לְנֹכַח הַצֹּאן in front of the flocks, 25:21 וַיֶּעְתַּר … לְנֹכַח אִשְׁתּוֹ in front of, i.e. on behalf of (cf. pro), his wife; (c) עַד־נֹכַח, Ju 19:10 וַיָּבֹא עַד־ני יְבוּס as far as in front of Jebus, 20:43 Ez 47:20 (עַד־נֹכַח לְ). Syn. נֶגֶד, q.v.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 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: in front of (8); opposite (5); opposite to (5).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 4:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.25/#tree)

עֵ֭ינֶיךָ לְנֹ֣כַח יַבִּ֑יטוּ וְ֝עַפְעַפֶּ֗יךָ יַיְשִׁ֥רוּ נֶגְדֶּֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* eyes your to the.front let.them.look and eyelids your let.them.look.straight before you

*JPS 1917:* Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

[Proverbs 5:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.21/#tree)

כִּ֤י נֹ֨כַח ׀ עֵינֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה דַּרְכֵי־אִ֑ישׁ וְֽכָל־מַעְגְּלֹתָ֥יו מְפַלֵּֽס׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[are\].in.front.of the.eyes of.Yahweh the.ways of.a.person and all tracks his \[he.is\].observing

*JPS 1917:* For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He maketh even all his paths.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5227.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5227/): 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).