Prince
מִנְזָרStrong’s H4502minnzar (min-n-zar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Minnzar is the Hebrew word usually translated “courtiers your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.”
Meaning
- Princes, anointed ones, consecrated onesmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- courtiers your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nahum 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מִנְזָר minnzar · prince
1) princes, anointed ones, consecrated ones 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prince” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRINCE, noun
prins. [Latin princeps.]
- In a general sense, a sovereign; the chief and independent ruler of a nation or state.
- A sovereign in a certain territory; one who has the government of a particular state or territory, but holds of a superior to whom he owes certain services; as the princes of the German states.
- The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as princes of the blood.
- The chief of any body of men.
All definitions and other forms of “prince”
- A chief or ruler of either sex.
PRINCE, verb intransitive
To play the prince; to take state.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.