Natsach means “excel” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5329 — phares in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5329 נָצַח (natsach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. natsach (naw-tsakh') v. 1. (properly) to glitter from afar 2. to be eminent (as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and its music) It has 10 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include excel. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
natsach (naw-tsakh') v. 1. (properly) to glitter from afar 2. to be eminent (as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and its music) 3. (as denominative from H5331) to be permanent [a primitive root] KJV: excel, chief musician (singer), oversee(-r), set forward. See also: H5331
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to conduct
Usage: 1) to excel, be bright, be preeminent, be perpetual, be overseer, be enduring 1a) (Niphal) enduring (participle) 1b) (Piel) to act as overseer or superintendent or director or chief Aramaic equivalent: ne.tsach (נְצַח "to distinguish oneself" H5330)
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10 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
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 them.
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5329.
And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
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 them.
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 to set the people a work.
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers 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.
Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
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 forward the work of the house of the LORD.
Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
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 on my stringed instruments.
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Natsach (Strong's H5329) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "excel". natsach (naw-tsakh') v. 1. (properly) to glitter from afar 2. to be eminent (as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and its music)
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's H5329 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5329 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as excel. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.