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Psalms 18:1
“To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5329 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, to glitter from afar, i.e. to be eminent (as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and its music); to be permanent
- Derivation
- a primitive root; also as denominative from H5331 (נֶצַח)
- KJV renderings
- excel, chief musician (singer), oversee(-r), set forward.
- Grammar
- לַ — preposition with definite article
- מְנַצֵּ֤חַ — verb Piel, active participle, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 65 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Chronicles 15:211 Chronicles 23:42 Chronicles 2:12 Chronicles 2:172 Chronicles 34:12
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 נָצַח 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.