Nâtsach — H5329

Definition

verb

properly, to glitter from afar, i.e. to be eminent (as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and its music); to be permanent

1. to excel, be bright, be preeminent, be perpetual, be overseer, be enduring
1. (Niphal) enduring (participle)
2. (Piel) to act as overseer or superintendent or director or chief

Usually translated as

chief musician, excel, oversee, set forward, overseer

Origin

a primitive root; also as denominative from H5331

• Derived from Netsach (H5331)

Greek equivalents

• enischýō (G1765)
• episkopéō (G1983)
• epistátēs (G1988)
• ischýō (G2480)
• nikáō (G3528)

Occurrences

Nâtsach occurs 10 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (4), Ezra (2), Jeremiah (1), Habakkuk (1)

• 1 Chronicles 15:21 — And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel (לְנַצֵּֽחַ).
• 1 Chronicles 23:4 — Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward (לְנַצֵּ֙חַ֙) the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
• 2 Chronicles 2:2 — And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee (וּמְנַצְּחִ֣ים) them.
• 2 Chronicles 2:18 — And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers (מְנַצְּחִ֖ים) to set the people a work.
• 2 Chronicles 34:12 — And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers (לְנַצֵּ֑חַ) of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
• 2 Chronicles 34:13 — Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers (וּֽמְנַצְּחִים֙) of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
• Ezra 3:8 — Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set (לְנַצֵּ֖חַ) forward the work of the house of the LORD.
• Ezra 3:9 — Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set (לְנַצֵּ֛חַ) forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
• Jeremiah 8:5 — Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual (נִצַּ֑חַת) backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
• Habakkuk 3:19 — The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer (לַמְנַצֵּ֖חַ) on my stringed instruments.