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# נָשִׂיא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5387

**one lifted up** — used 130 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

one lifted up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5387/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשִׂיא: n.m. one lifted up chief prince [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5387/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. one lifted up, i.e. a chief prince;—abs. נ׳ Ez 22:27 +; cstr. נְשִׂיא Gn 23:6 +; pl. נְשִׂיאִים Jos 22:32 +, נְשִׂאִים Ex 34:31 + 7 times, נְשִׂיאִם Gn 17:20 + 3 times, נְשִׂאִם Ex 35:27; cstr. נְשִׂיאֵי Ex 16:22 +; sf. נְשִׂיאַי Ez 45:8, נְשִׂיאֶיהָ Ez 32:29, נְשִׂיאֵיהֶם Nu 17:21, נְשִׂיאֵהֶם v 17, etc.—mostly in Isr.: נ׳ בְּעַמְּךָ of any chief man, Ex 22:27 (E; human ruler, over ag. אֱלֹהִים). of Solom. 1 K 11:34. Elsewhere only Ez P Chr:— of Abr. Gn 23:6, of Ishmaelites 17:20; 25:16, of Hittites Gn 34:2. rulers of the congregation, נְשִׂיאֵי הָעֵדָה Ex 16:22 Jos 9:15, 18; 22:30, הַנּ׳ בָּעֵדָה 34:31, cf. 35:27 Lv 4:22 Jos 9:18b, 19, 21(×2); 17:4; 22:14(×3), 32 (all P); especially tribal chiefs and representatives, according to the religious organization of P, Nu 1:16, 44 2:3 + 57 times Nu (especially chaps. 2, 7, 34; note נְשִׂיא נְשִׂיאֵי הַלִּוֵי 3:32); cf. 1 Ch 2:10; 4:38; 5:6; 7:40 2 Ch 1:2; also 1 K 8:1 (prob. gloss, om. 𝔊 Benz), 2 Ch 5:2. in Ezek.: of Zedekiah (for מֶלָךְ; v. BöhmerSK 1900, 112 ff.), 7:27; 12:10, 12; 21:30, + 19:1 (read sg. 𝔊 Ew Hi Co Berthol Toy). chief men of Judah 21:17; 22:6; 45:8, 9. future Davidic kg. 34:24; 37:25, cf. 44:3(×2) + 16 times Ez 45, 46, 48. foreign princes 26:16; 27:21; 30:13; 32:29; 38:2, 3; 39:1, 18. leader of exiles returning under Cyrus, according to Ezr 1:8. non-Isr. chiefs in P: Gn 34:2 Nu 25:18 Jos 13:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 53 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: prince (20); a leader (19); leaders (17).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 19:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.1/#tree)

וְאַתָּה֙ שָׂ֣א קִינָ֔ה אֶל־נְשִׂיאֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and you take.up a.lamentation because.of the.princes of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

[Numbers 34:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.22/#tree)

וּלְמַטֵּ֥ה בְנֵי־דָ֖ן נָשִׂ֑יא בֻּקִּ֖י בֶּן־יָגְלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and of the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Dan a.leader Bukki the.son of.Jogli

*JPS 1917:* And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5387.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5387/): 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).