Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H5176
נָחָשׁ
Nachashnaw-khawsh'
Nahash
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Nâchâsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5176is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5176
Nachash, the name of two persons apparently non-Israelite
The King James renders it: Nahash.
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
Nachash is rendered "Nahash". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 11:1Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
1 Samuel 11:1נָחָשׁ֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's ten uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Nahash10
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- נָחָשׁ֙2
- נָחָ֔שׁ2
- נָחָ֗שׁ2
- נָחָ֞שׁ1
- נָחָ֜שׁ1
- נָחָ֑שׁ1
- נָחָ֖שׁ1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)9HNpm
- proper noun (a name)1HNpl
1 Samuel
four uses
Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
- נָחָשׁ֙nachashproper noun (a name)tagged: Nahash
- נָחָ֔שׁnachashproper noun (a name)tagged: Nahash
But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
- נָחָשׁ֙nachashproper noun (a name)tagged: Nahash
But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.
- נָחָ֞שׁnachashproper noun (a name)tagged: Nahash
2 Samuel
three uses
And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,
- נָחָ֗שׁnachashproper noun (a name)tagged: Nahash
Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
- נָחָ֔שׁnachashproper noun (a name)tagged: Nahash
When David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
- נָחָ֜שׁnachashproper noun (a name)tagged: Nahash
1 Chronicles
three uses
Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, of Paseah, and of Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah.
- נָחָ֑שׁnachashproper noun (a name)tagged: nahash
Some time later, Nahash king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son.
- נָחָ֖שׁnachashproper noun (a name)tagged: Nahash
And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,
- נָחָ֗שׁnachashproper noun (a name)tagged: Nahash
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.