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# נָשִׂיא

Biblical Hebrew

**rising mist** — 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

rising mist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e9_5b4_5c2_5d9_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשִׂיא²: rising mist, vapour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e9_5b4_5c2_5d9_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] rising mist, vapour (Arabic نَشْءٌ, نَشِىٌٔ );—only pl. נְשִׂאִים vapours, forming clouds, and portending rain, Je 10:13 = 51:16, ψ 135:7, נְשִׂיאִים Pr 25:14.

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, 2 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: clouds (4).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 25:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.14/#tree)

נְשִׂיאִ֣ים וְ֭רוּחַ וְגֶ֣שֶׁם אָ֑יִן אִ֥ישׁ מִ֝תְהַלֵּ֗ל בְּמַתַּת־שָֽׁקֶר׃

*Word for word:* clouds and wind and rain there.\[is\].not a.person \[who\].boasts in a.gift of.falsehood

*JPS 1917:* As vapours and wind without rain, so is he that boasteth himself of a false gift.

[Psalms 135:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.135.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.135.7/#tree)

מַֽעֲלֶ֣ה נְשִׂאִים֮ מִקְצֵ֪ה הָ֫אָ֥רֶץ בְּרָקִ֣ים לַמָּטָ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה מֽוֹצֵא־ר֝וּחַ מֵאֽוֹצְרוֹתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].bringing.up clouds from the.end of the.earth lightning.flashes for the rain he.makes \[he.is\].bringing.out wind from storehouses his

*JPS 1917:* Who causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings for the rain; He bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e9_5b4_5c2_5d9_5d0/): 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).