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# נָסִיךְ

Biblical Hebrew

**prince** — used 4 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

prince [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e1_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָסִיךְ²: n.m. prince [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e1_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. prince;—pl. cstr. נְסִיכֵי Jos 13:21; Ez 32:30; Mi 5:4; sf. נְסִיכֵמוֹ ψ 83:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: princes (3); the princes (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 83:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.12/#tree)

שִׁיתֵ֣מוֹ נְ֭דִיבֵמוֹ כְּעֹרֵ֣ב וְכִזְאֵ֑ב וּֽכְזֶ֥בַח וּ֝כְצַלְמֻנָּ֗ע כָּל־נְסִיכֵֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* make them their.noble \[people\] like Oreb and like Zeeb and like Zebah and like Zalmunna all princes their

*JPS 1917:* Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes;

[Micah 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.5.4/#tree)

וְהָיָ֥ה זֶ֖ה שָׁל֑וֹם אַשּׁ֣וּר ׀ כִּֽי־יָב֣וֹא בְאַרְצֵ֗נוּ וְכִ֤י יִדְרֹךְ֙ בְּאַרְמְנֹתֵ֔ינוּ וַהֲקֵמֹ֤נוּ עָלָיו֙ שִׁבְעָ֣ה רֹעִ֔ים וּשְׁמֹנָ֖ה נְסִיכֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.be this.\[one\] peace Assyria (dm) it.will.come in land our and (dm) it.will.tread on fortresses our and we.will.raise.up on him seven shepherds and eight princes of.man

*JPS 1917:* And this shall be peace: when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight princes among men.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e1_5b4_5d9_5da_5b0/): 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).