Hebrew verb · H5148
נָחָה
nachahnaw-khaw'
to lead
39 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâchâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5148is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 35spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5148
to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
The King James renders it: bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nachah is rendered "to lead". It stands 39 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Eighteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:27saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
- The Greek text spells it thirty-five different ways.
The first use
saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
Genesis 24:27נָחַ֣נִי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he led them4
- and he guided them3
- and lead me2
- he led them2
- you guide me2
- and he will lead you1
- and I will lead him1
- has he led me1
- he guided it1
- he guides me1
- he had led me1
- he has led me1
and 19 more, 39 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָחָשׁ | nachash | serpent | Uses31 |
The words it stands beside
All 39, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
35 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נָחַ֣נִי3
- וַיַּנְחֵ֣ם2
- תַנְחֵ֑נִי2
- אַנְחֶֽנָּה׃1
- הִנְחִיתָ֖ם1
- הִנְחַ֙נִי֙1
- וְאַנְחֵ֕הוּ1
- וַ֝יַּנְחֵ֗ם1
- וַיַּנְחֵ֕ם1
- וַיַּנְחֵם֙1
- וַיַּנְחֵ֞ם1
- וַיַּנְחֵֽם׃1
and 23 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp7Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HVhi2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HVqp3ms/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HC/Vqv2ms/Sp1bs
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HR/Vhcc/Sp3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HVhi2ms/Sp3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVhi3fs/Sp1bs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVhi3ms/Sp1bs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhi3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqp2ms
- HC/Vhu1cs/Sp3ms1HC/Vhu1cs/Sp3ms
- Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp2ms1Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp2ms
Genesis
two uses
saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
- נָחַ֣נִיnachaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has led me
Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.
- הִנְחַ֙נִי֙hinchaniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he had led me
Exodus
four uses
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
- נָחָ֣םnachamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he led them
And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
- לַנְחֹתָ֣םlanchotampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to guide them
With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.
- נָחִ֥יתָnachitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have guided
Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
- נְחֵ֣הnechehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: lead
Numbers
one use
And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
- יַנְחֵ֨נִיyancheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he led me
Deuteronomy
one use
The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.
- יַנְחֶ֑נּוּyanchenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he guided it
1 Samuel
one use
So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.
- וַיַּנְחֵ֕םvaiyanchemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he led them
1 Kings
one use
Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
- וַיַּנְחֵם֙vaiyanchemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he led them
2 Kings
one use
The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- וַיַּנְחֵ֞םvaiyanchemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he led them
Nehemiah
two uses
You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
- הִנְחִיתָ֖םhinchitamverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you led them
You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
- לְהַנְחֹתָ֣םlehanchotampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to lead them
Job
three uses
He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.
- וַיַּנְחֵֽם׃vaiyanchemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he led them
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
- אַנְחֶֽנָּה׃ʾanchenahverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: I guided her
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
- תַנְחֵֽם׃tanchemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: will you guide? them
Psalms
eighteen uses
Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
- נְחֵ֬נִיnecheniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: lead me
He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
- יַֽנְחֵ֥נִיyancheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he guides me
Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.
- וּ֭נְחֵנִיunecheniconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and lead me
For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
- תַּֽנְחֵ֥נִיtancheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you guide me
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
- יַנְח֑וּנִיyanchuniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: may they lead me
Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
- נָחַ֣נִיnachaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: has he led me
From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- תַנְחֵֽנִי׃tancheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will lead me
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for You judge the peoples justly and lead the nations of the earth. Selah
- תַּנְחֵ֣םtanchemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you guide them
You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.
- תַנְחֵ֑נִיtancheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you guide me
You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- נָחִ֣יתָnachitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you led
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
- וַיַּנְחֵ֣םvaiyanchemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he guided them
He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
- וַיַּנְחֵ֣םvaiyanchemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he guided them
So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
- יַנְחֵֽם׃yanchemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he led them
They rejoiced in the silence, and He guided them to the harbor they desired.
- וַ֝יַּנְחֵ֗םvaiyanchemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he guided them
Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
- נָחַ֣נִיnachaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will he lead me
even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
- תַנְחֵ֑נִיtancheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it will lead me
See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
- וּ֝נְחֵ֗נִיunecheniconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and lead me
Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
- תַּ֝נְחֵ֗נִיtancheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: may it lead me
Proverbs
three uses
When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
- תַּנְחֶ֬הtanchehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will guide
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
- תַּנְחֵ֑םtanchemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: it guides them
A man’s gift opens doors for him, and brings him before great men.
- יַנְחֶֽנּוּ׃yanchenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it leads him
Isaiah
two uses
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
- וְאַנְחֵ֕הוּveanchehuHC/Vhu1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will lead him
The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
- וְנָחֲךָ֣venachakhaHc/Vqq3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he will lead you
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.