Hebrew verb · H5181
נָחַת
nachathnaw-khath'
to descend
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâchath
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5181is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5181
to sink, i.e. descend; causatively, to press or lead down
The King James renders it: be broken, (cause to) come down, enter, go down, press sore, settle, stick fast.
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
nachath is rendered "to descend". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 2:10Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
1 Samuel 2:10יֵחַ֣תּוּ
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 it will stretch2
- and it has come down1
- bring down1
- it goes deep1
- they descend1
- they have penetrated1
- they will be shattered1
- will he come down1
- will we descend1
- you press down1
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.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- הַֽנְחַ֥ת1
- וְנִחַ֥ת1
- וְֽנִחֲתָ֥ה1
- וַתִּנְחַ֖ת1
- יֵחַ֣ת1
- יֵחַ֣תּוּ1
- יֵחָֽתּוּ׃1
- נַחֵ֣ת1
- נָֽחַת׃ ס1
- נִ֣חֲתוּ1
- תֵּ֣חַת1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVNi3mp
- Hc/Vpq3fs1Hc/Vpq3fs
- Hc/Vpq3ms1Hc/Vpq3ms
- Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhv2ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HVpcc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural1HVqi1cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
1 Samuel
one use
Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
- יֵחַ֣תּוּyechatuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be shattered
2 Samuel
one use
He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
- וְנִחַ֥תvenichatHc/Vpq3mstagged: and it will stretch
Job
two uses
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
- נָֽחַת׃ סnachatverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: will we descend
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
- יֵחָֽתּוּ׃yechatuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they descend
Psalms
four uses
He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
- וְֽנִחֲתָ֥הvenichatahHc/Vpq3fstagged: and it will stretch
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- נִ֣חֲתוּnichatuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have penetrated
- וַתִּנְחַ֖תvatinchatHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it has come down
You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
- נַחֵ֣תnachetverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: you press down
Proverbs
one use
A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.
- תֵּ֣חַתtechatverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it goes deep
Jeremiah
one use
Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
- יֵחַ֣תyechatverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he come down
Joel
one use
Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.
- הַֽנְחַ֥תhanchatverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: bring down
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.