Hebrew verb · H5324
נָצַב
natsabnaw-tsab'
to stand
75 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâtsab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5324is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 21 of 39Old Testament books
- 51spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5324
to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: appointed, deputy, erect, establish, [idiom] Huzzah (by mistake for a proper name), lay, officer, pillar, present, rear up, set (over, up), settle, sharpen, establish, (make to) stand(-ing, still, up, upright), best state.
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
natsab is rendered "to stand". It stands 75 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:2And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
- The Greek text spells it fifty-one different ways.
The first use
And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
Genesis 18:2נִצָּבִ֖ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty-one of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- standing21
- the overseers5
- and he set up3
- and you will stand2
- set up2
- taking his stand2
- who was appointed2
- who were standing2
- a deputy1
- and he had set up1
- and he has set up me1
- and he made to stand up1
and 32 more, 75 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.
The words it stands beside
All 75, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
51 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
- נִצָּ֥ב8
- נִצָּ֖ב6
- נִצָּ֣ב4
- נִצָּבִ֖ים4
- נִצָּב֙3
- הַנִּצָּבִ֨ים2
- וַיַּצֶּב־2
- וַיַּצִּ֧בוּ2
- וְנִצַּבְתָּ֥2
- הַנִּצָּ֖ב1
- הַנִּצָּ֥ב1
- הַנִּצָּבָה֙1
and 39 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular22HVNrmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural8HTd/VNrmpa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural8HVNrmpa
- Hc/Vhw3ms6Hc/Vhw3ms
- Hc/VNq2ms3Hc/VNq2ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HVNp3fs
- Hc/Vhw3mp2Hc/Vhw3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singular2HTd/VNrfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular2HTd/VNrmsa
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVhp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vhcc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Vhj3ms
Genesis
twelve uses
And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
- נִצָּבִ֖יםnitzavimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: standing
Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
- וַיַּצֵּ֣בvaiyatzevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he set
and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
- הִצַּ֖בְתָּhitzavtaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have set
Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
- נִצָּ֖בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
- נִצָּ֖בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
- מֻצָּ֣בmutzavverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: placed
And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
- נִצָּ֣בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
- וַיַּצֶּב־vaiyatzev-Hc/Vhw3mstagged: and he set up
So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- וַיַּצֵּ֨בvaiyatzevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he set up
Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
- וַיַּצֵּ֧בvaiyatzevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he set up
We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”
- נִצָּ֑בָהnitzavahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it stood upright
Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
- הַנִּצָּבִים֙hanitzavimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those standing
Exodus
eight uses
When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.
- נִצָּבִ֖יםnitzavimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: standing
Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
- וְנִצַּבְתָּ֥venitzavtaHc/VNq2mstagged: and you will stand
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
- נִצְּב֥וּnitzevuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they stood up
So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”
- נִצָּב֙nitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”
- נִצָּ֥בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
Then, whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would stand at the entrances to their own tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.
- וְנִ֨צְּב֔וּvenitzevuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they stood
The LORD continued, “There is a place near Me where you are to stand upon a rock,
- וְנִצַּבְתָּ֖venitzavtaHc/VNq2mstagged: and you will stand
Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.
- וְנִצַּבְתָּ֥venitzavtaHc/VNq2mstagged: and you will station yourself
Numbers
six uses
So they moved away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and Abiram had come out and stood at the entrances to their tents with their wives and children and infants.
- נִצָּבִ֗יםnitzavimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: standing
When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to return her to the path.
- נִצָּ֣בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. And Balaam bowed low and fell facedown.
- נִצָּ֣בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
“I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
- נִצָּ֥בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of Moab.
- נִצָּ֖בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.
- נִצָּב֙nitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
Deuteronomy
two uses
All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
- נִצָּבִ֤יםnitzavimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: standing
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
- יַצֵּב֙yatzevverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he fixed
Joshua
one use
At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”
- יַצִּ֥יבyatzivverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will set up
Judges
three uses
Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.
- מֻצָּ֖בmutzavnoun · masculine singulartagged: set up
The six hundred Danites stood at the entrance of the gate, armed with their weapons of war.
- נִצָּבִ֖יםnitzavimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: standing
And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
- נִצָּב֙nitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
Ruth
two uses
And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”
- הַנִּצָּ֖בhanitzavthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who was appointed
The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
- הַנִּצָּ֥בhanitzavthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who was appointed
1 Samuel
nine uses
“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
- הַנִּצֶּ֤בֶתhanitzevetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: who stood
As she was dying, the women attending to her said, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay any heed.
- הַנִּצָּב֣וֹתhanitzavotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: those were standing
The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
- וּלְהַצִּ֖יבulehatzivconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to make straight
Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel, and behold, he has set up a monument for himself and has turned and gone down to Gilgal.”
- מַצִּ֥יבmatzivverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: setting up
he sent messengers to capture him. But when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel leading them, the Spirit of God came upon them, and Saul’s messengers also began to prophesy.
- נִצָּ֖בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: chief
Soon Saul learned that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with his spear in hand and all his servants standing around him.
- נִצָּבִ֥יםnitzavimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: standing
Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
- הַנִּצָּבִ֣יםhanitzavimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were standing
But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
- נִצָּ֥בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
- הַנִּצָּבִ֨יםhanitzavimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were standing
2 Samuel
three uses
Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
- נִצָּבִ֖יםnitzavimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: standing
They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.
- וַיַּצִּ֧בוּvaiyatzivuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they set up
During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
- וַיַּצֶּב־vaiyatzev-Hc/Vhw3mstagged: and he had set up
1 Kings
seven uses
Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king;
- הַנִּצָּבִ֑יםhanitzavimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the overseers
Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,
- נִצָּבִים֙nitzavimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: overseers
Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
- הַנִּצָּבִ֨יםhanitzavimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the overseers
not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.
- הַנִּצָּבִ֤יםhanitzavimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the overseers
They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.
- הַנִּצָּבִ֗יםhanitzavimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the overseers
In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
- הִצִּ֣יבhitzivverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he set up
And there was no king in Edom; a deputy served as king.
- נִצָּ֥בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a deputy
2 Kings
one use
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- וַיַּצִּ֧בוּvaiyatzivuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they erected
1 Chronicles
one use
As far as Hamath, David also defeated King Hadadezer of Zobah, who had marched out to establish his dominion along the Euphrates River.
- לְהַצִּ֥יבlehatzivpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to establish
2 Chronicles
one use
They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors.
- הַנִּצָּבִ֛יםhanetzivimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the overseers
Psalms
seven uses
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- נִצָּ֥בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: stands
In my integrity You uphold me and set me in Your presence forever.
- וַתַּצִּיבֵ֖נִיvatatziveniHc/Vhw2ms/Sp1bstagged: and you have set me
The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
- נִצְּבָ֥הnitzevahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she stands
You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
- הִ֭צַּבְתָּhitzavtaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you established
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
- וַֽיַּצֶּב־vaiyatzev-Hc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made to stand up
God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:
- נִצָּ֥בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: taking his stand
Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.
- נִצָּ֥בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing firm
Proverbs
two uses
On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.
- נִצָּֽבָה׃nitzavahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she stations herself
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
- וְ֝יַצֵּ֗בveyatzevconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and he will establish
Isaiah
two uses
The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.
- נִצָּ֥בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: taking his stand
Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.
- נִצָּ֖בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: stationed
Jeremiah
two uses
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
- הִצִּ֥יבוּhitzivuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they set
“Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.
- הַצִּ֧יבִיhatziviverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: set up
Lamentations
two uses
He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
- נִצָּ֤בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: taken a stand
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
- וַיַּצִּיבֵ֔נִיvaiyatziveniHc/Vhw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and he has set up me
Amos
two uses
This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
- נִצָּ֖בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
- נִצָּ֣בnitzavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: standing
Nahum
one use
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
- וְהֻצַּ֖בvehutzavconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and it has been fixed
Zechariah
one use
For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.
- הַנִּצָּבָה֙hanitzavahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the stands firm
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.
