Strong H5329נָצַח
to conduct
- Transliteration
- nâtsach
- Pronunciation
- naw-tsakh'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; properly to glitter from {afar} that {is} to be eminent (as a {superintendent} especially of the Temple services and its music); also (as denominative from {H5331 }) to be permanent: - {excel} chief musician ({singer}) oversee ({-r}) set forward.
Detailed definition
STEP sense: to conduct
Exact lexical definition: be pre-eminent
Part of speech: verb
BDB context: [ נָצַח ] vb . be pre-eminent , enduring Niph . enduring Piel = act as overseer , superintendent , director
In the Bible
Strong H5329 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- overseer3
- set3
- excel1
- oversee1
- perpetual1
- singer1
First verses
- 1 Chronicles 15:21And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed–edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
- 1 Chronicles 23:4Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and judges:
- 2 Chronicles 2:2And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
- 2 Chronicles 2:18And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
- 2 Chronicles 34:12And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
- 2 Chronicles 34:13Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
- Ezra 3:8Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.
- Ezra 3:9Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
- Jeremiah 8:5Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
- Habakkuk 3:19The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.