--- title: נָשִׂיא — one lifted up · The Tanakh dictionary description: נָשִׂיא (5387), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 130 times: one lifted up. BDB 1906: n.m. one lifted up chief prince. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5387.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1504-4.md)‎ / נָשִׂיא‎ # נָשִׂיא «נָשִׂיא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **one lifted up** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 130 times · **Key:** 5387 · **BDB:** נָשִׂיא ### Glosses prince (20); a.leader (19); leaders (17) ### Meaning (OSHB) one lifted up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5387/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. one lifted up chief prince [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5387/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. one lifted up, i.e. a chief prince;—abs. נ׳ Ez 22:27 +; cstr. נְשִׂיא Gn 23:6 +; pl. נְשִׂיאִים Jos 22:32 +, נְשִׂאִים Ex 34:31 + 7 times, נְשִׂיאִם Gn 17:20 + 3 times, נְשִׂאִם Ex 35:27; cstr. נְשִׂיאֵי Ex 16:22 +; sf. נְשִׂיאַי Ez 45:8, נְשִׂיאֶיהָ Ez 32:29, נְשִׂיאֵיהֶם Nu 17:21, נְשִׂיאֵהֶם v 17, etc.—mostly in Isr.: נ׳ בְּעַמְּךָ of any chief man, Ex 22:27 (E; human ruler, over ag. אֱלֹהִים). of Solom. 1 K 11:34. Elsewhere only Ez P Chr:— of Abr. Gn 23:6, of Ishmaelites 17:20; 25:16, of Hittites Gn 34:2. rulers of the congregation, נְשִׂיאֵי הָעֵדָה Ex 16:22 Jos 9:15, 18; 22:30, הַנּ׳ בָּעֵדָה 34:31, cf. 35:27 Lv 4:22 Jos 9:18b, 19, 21(×2); 17:4; 22:14(×3), 32 (all P); especially tribal chiefs and representatives, according to the religious organization of P, Nu 1:16, 44 2:3 + 57 times Nu (especially chaps. 2, 7, 34; note נְשִׂיא נְשִׂיאֵי הַלִּוֵי 3:32); cf. 1 Ch 2:10; 4:38; 5:6; 7:40 2 Ch 1:2; also 1 K 8:1 (prob. gloss, om. 𝔊 Benz), 2 Ch 5:2. in Ezek.: of Zedekiah (for מֶלָךְ; v. BöhmerSK 1900, 112 ff.), 7:27; 12:10, 12; 21:30, + 19:1 (read sg. 𝔊 Ew Hi Co Berthol Toy). chief men of Judah 21:17; 22:6; 45:8, 9. future Davidic kg. 34:24; 37:25, cf. 44:3(×2) + 16 times Ez 45, 46, 48. foreign princes 26:16; 27:21; 30:13; 32:29; 38:2, 3; 39:1, 18. leader of exiles returning under Cyrus, according to Ezr 1:8. non-Isr. chiefs in P: Gn 34:2 Nu 25:18 Jos 13:21. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 53 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «נָשִׂיא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5387/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Ezekiel 19:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.1/) וְאַתָּה֙ שָׂ֣א קִינָ֔ה אֶל־נְשִׂיאֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ *Word for word:* and you take.up a.lamentation because.of the.princes of.Israel *JPS 1917:* Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, [Numbers 34:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.34.22/) וּלְמַטֵּ֥ה בְנֵי־דָ֖ן נָשִׂ֑יא בֻּקִּ֖י בֶּן־יָגְלִֽי׃ *Word for word:* and of the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Dan a.leader Bukki the.son of.Jogli *JPS 1917:* And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli. - ← previous: [נְשִׁי](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5386.md) - next →: [נָשִׂיא](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e9_5b4_5c2_5d9_5d0.md) - ↑ back to [נ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1504-4.md)