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Ezekiel 12:12
“And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5387 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist
- Derivation
- or נָשִׂא; from H5375 (נָשָׂא);
- KJV renderings
- captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הַ — particle (definite article)
- נָּשִׂ֨יא — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 134 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 17:20Genesis 23:6Genesis 25:16Genesis 34:2Exodus 16:22
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָשִׂיא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.