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Psalms 45:1
“To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.” (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
- מְנַצֵּ֣חַ — 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.