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Word Study · Strong's H5387 · Hebrew

נָשִׂיא

nasi

naw-see'

Strong's 1890 spelling: nâsîyʼ

properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist

Rendered in the KJV as

captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.

  • 134
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 67
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 134 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 67

  • וְנָשִׂיא֙13
  • נָשִׂ֖יא12
  • נְשִׂיאֵ֣י12
  • נָשִׂ֑יא7
  • נָשִׂ֥יא4
  • נְשִׂיאֵ֥י4
  • וְנָשִׂ֥יא3
  • לַנָּשִׂ֖יא3
  • נְשִׂ֖יא3
  • נְשִׂ֕יא3
  • נְשִׂיאֵ֖י3
  • הַנְּשִׂאִ֖ים2

and 55 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 41

  • a leader14
  • the leaders13
  • [the] leaders of12
  • and [the] leader12
  • [the] leader10
  • the prince10
  • [the] princes of6
  • and [the] leader of4
  • and [the] leaders of4
  • clouds4
  • [the] leader of3
  • [the] prince of3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 17

  • noun · masculine singular30
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)21
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular16
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural13
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular11
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)10
  • noun · masculine plural8
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 30
  • HNcmpc · 21
  • HC/Ncmsa · 16
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 13
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 11
  • HNcmsc · 10
  • HNcmpa · 8
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 6
  • HC/Ncmpc · 4
  • HC/Ncmsc · 4
  • HC/Td/Ncmpa · 2
  • HC/Td/Ncmsa · 2

All 134, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis4 occurrences
Exodus4 occurrences
Leviticus1 occurrence
Numbers62 occurrences
Joshua13 occurrences
1 Kings2 occurrences
1 Chronicles4 occurrences
2 Chronicles2 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Psalms1 occurrence
Proverbs1 occurrence
Jeremiah2 occurrences
Ezekiel37 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).