Original Language Studio
Numbers 3:32
“And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
נָשִׂיאnâsîyʼ · naw-see'
H5387 · Hebrew
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
- וּ — conjunction
- נְשִׂיא֙ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- 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.