Nasi נָשִׂיא

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Nasi
נָשִׂיא
Transliterationnasi
Strong's numberH5387 (H5387A, H5387B)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossleader
Occurrences134 in 120 verses
Most frequent inNumbers (55)

Nasi (Hebrew נָשִׂיא, Strong's H5387) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “leader”. It occurs 134 times in 120 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H5387A: leader

one lifted up, chief, prince, captain, leader

H5387B: mist

rising mist, vapour

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVprince (55), princes (40), captain (12), chief (10), rulers (3), ruler (3), vapours (3), governor (1), clouds (1), prince's part (1), prince's (1)
BSBleader (38), leaders (27), prince (23), princes (7), chiefs (3), he causes the clouds (3), ruler (2), rulers (1), chosen one (1), chief (1), who is a leader (1), their leaders (1), and 12 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Nasi, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Joshua

1 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Psalms

Proverbs

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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