Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5331
נֶצַח
netsachneh'-tsakh
perpetuity
43 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5331is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5331
properly, a goal, i.e. the bright object at adistance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objectively) confidence; but usually (adverbially), continually (i.e. to the most distant point of view)
The King James renders it: alway(-s), constantly, end, ([phrase] n-) ever(more), perpetual, strength, victory.
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
netsach is rendered "perpetuity". It stands 43 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Eighteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 15:29Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.
The first use
Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
1 Samuel 15:29נֵ֣צַח
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
- to perpetuity30
- perpetuity7
- ¿ to perpetuity1
- and the eminence1
- eminence of1
- endurance my1
- perpetuities1
- to perpetuity of1
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 43, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
20 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
- לָנֶ֑צַח5
- לָנֶֽצַח׃5
- לָנֶ֔צַח4
- לָנֶ֖צַח4
- לָנֶ֥צַח3
- נֶ֑צַח3
- לָ֫נֶ֥צַח2
- לָ֭נֶצַח2
- לָנֶ֣צַח2
- לָ֝נֶ֗צַח2
- נֶֽצַח׃2
- הֲלָנֶ֙צַח֙1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular30HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular7HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- question particle + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HTi/R/Ncmsa
1 Samuel
one use
Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- נֵ֣צַחnetzachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: eminence of
2 Samuel
one use
Then Abner called out to Joab: “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?”
- הֲלָנֶ֙צַח֙halanetzachquestion particle + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: ¿ to perpetuity
1 Chronicles
one use
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- וְהַנֵּ֣צַחvehanetzachconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the eminence
Job
six uses
They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
- לָנֶ֥צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
- לָ֭נֶצַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
- לָנֶ֣צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
- לָ֝נֶ֗צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
- נֶ֑צַחnetzachnoun · masculine singulartagged: perpetuity
He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
- לָ֝נֶ֗צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Psalms
eighteen uses
The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
- לָ֫נֶ֥צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
- לָ֭נֶצַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- לָנֶֽצַח׃lanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- נֶ֑צַחnetzachnoun · masculine singulartagged: perpetuity
You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
- נֶֽצַח׃netzachnoun · masculine singulartagged: perpetuity
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
- לָנֶֽצַח׃lanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
that he should live on forever and not see decay.
- לָנֶ֑צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
- נֵ֝֗צַחnetzachnoun · masculine singulartagged: perpetuity
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- לָ֫נֶ֥צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
- לָנֶֽצַח׃lanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
- לָנֶ֑צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
- נֶ֑צַחnetzachnoun · masculine singulartagged: perpetuity
How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
- לָנֶֽצַח׃lanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
- לָנֶֽצַח׃lanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?
- לָנֶ֣צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
- לָנֶ֑צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
- לָנֶ֑צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
- לָנֶ֥צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Proverbs
one use
A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.
- לָנֶ֥צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Isaiah
seven uses
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
- לָנֶ֔צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- לָנֶ֔צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
- לָנֶ֖צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
- לָנֶ֔צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
- לְנֵ֣צַחlenetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to perpetuity of
- נְצָחִ֔יםnetzachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: perpetuities
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
- לָנֶ֖צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Jeremiah
three uses
Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
- לָנֶ֑צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
- נֶ֔צַחnetzachnoun · masculine singulartagged: perpetuity
So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
- לָנֶ֔צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Lamentations
two uses
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
- נִצְחִ֔יnitzchinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: endurance my
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
- לָנֶ֙צַח֙lanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Amos
two uses
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.
- נֶֽצַח׃netzachnoun · masculine singulartagged: perpetuity
The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
- לָנֶ֖צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
Habakkuk
one use
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
- לָנֶ֖צַחlanetzachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to perpetuity
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.