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title: נָחָשׁ — Nahash · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָחָשׁ (5176), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: Nahash. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָחָשׁ

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«נָחָשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Nahash** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 5176 · **BDB:** נָחָשׁ²

### Glosses

Nahash (5); of.Nahash (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Nahash [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5176/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5176/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. king of Ammon 1 S 11:1(×2), 2; 12:12 2 S 10:2 1 Ch 19:1, 2; perhaps also 2 S 17:27; 𝔊 Ναας. father of Abigail and Zeruiah 2 S 17:25, si vera l.; 𝔊 Ναας, but 𝔊L Ιεσσαι (cf. 1 Ch 2:16); WeGesch. 2, 57 Anm. 1 Löhr defend נחשׁ; dub. WeSm HPS. giving name to a city עִיר נ׳ 1 Ch 4:12, 𝔊 πόλεως Ναας; 𝔊L Ηρναας.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָחָשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5176/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 19:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.19.1/)

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וַיְהִי֙ אַחֲרֵי־כֵ֔ן וַיָּ֕מָת נָחָ֖שׁ מֶ֣לֶךְ בְּנֵי־עַמּ֑וֹן וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְ בְּנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and it.was after thus and he.died Nahash the.king of.the.people of.Ammon and he.reigned son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

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[1 Samuel 11:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.11.1/)

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וַיַּ֗עַל נָחָשׁ֙ הָֽעַמּוֹנִ֔י וַיִּ֖חַן עַל־יָבֵ֣שׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד יָבֵ֣שׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ כָּל־אַנְשֵׁ֤י יָבֵישׁ֙ אֶל־נָחָ֔שׁ כְּרָת־לָ֥נוּ בְרִ֖ית וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up Nahash the Ammonite and he.encamped on Jabesh Gilead and they.said all the.men of.Jabesh to Nahash make to us a.covenant and we will.serve.you

*JPS 1917:* Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash: 'Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.'

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