Hebrew verb · H5329
נָצַח
natsachnaw-tsakh'
to conduct
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâtsach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5329is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5329
properly, to glitter from afar, i.e. to be eminent (as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and its music); to be permanent
The King James renders it: excel, chief musician (singer), oversee(-r), set forward.
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
natsach is rendered "to conduct". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Chronicles 15:21And Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead the music with lyres according to Sheminith.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead the music with lyres according to Sheminith.
1 Chronicles 15:21לְנַצֵּֽחַ׃
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 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to act as overseers5
- and acting as overseers1
- and overseers1
- enduring1
- overseers1
- to the choirmaster1
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 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- וּמְנַצְּחִ֣ים1
- וּֽמְנַצְּחִים֙1
- לַמְנַצֵּ֖חַ1
- לְנַצֵּ֙חַ֙1
- לְנַצֵּ֑חַ1
- לְנַצֵּ֖חַ1
- לְנַצֵּ֛חַ1
- לְנַצֵּֽחַ׃1
- מְנַצְּחִ֖ים1
- נִצַּ֑חַת1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)5HR/Vpcc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural2HC/Vprmpa
- preposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HRd/Vprmsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singular1HVNrfsa
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural1HVprmpa
1 Chronicles
two uses
And Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead the music with lyres according to Sheminith.
- לְנַצֵּֽחַ׃lenatzeachpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to act as overseers
“Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges,
- לְנַצֵּ֙חַ֙lenatzeachpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to act as overseers
2 Chronicles
four uses
So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- וּמְנַצְּחִ֣יםumenatzechimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and overseers
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- מְנַצְּחִ֖יםmenatzechimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: overseers
And the men did the work faithfully. The Levites overseeing them were Jahath and Obadiah, descendants of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, descendants of Kohath. Other Levites, all skilled with musical instruments,
- לְנַצֵּ֑חַlenatzeachpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to act as overseers
were over the laborers and supervised all who did the work, task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.
- וּֽמְנַצְּחִים֙umenatzechimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and acting as overseers
Ezra
two uses
In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.
- לְנַצֵּ֖חַlenatzeachpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to act as overseers
So Jeshua and his sons and brothers, Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Yehudah), and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together to supervise those working on the house of God.
- לְנַצֵּ֛חַlenatzeachpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to act as overseers
Jeremiah
one use
Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
- נִצַּ֑חַתnitzachatverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: enduring
Habakkuk
one use
GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.
- לַמְנַצֵּ֖חַlamnatzeachpreposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: to the choirmaster
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 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.