Leader
נָגִידStrong’s H5057nagid (na-gid)
Appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nagid is the Hebrew word usually translated “ruler”, “leader” and “ruler of”. It appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament.
“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.”
Meaning
- Leader, ruler, captain, princeruler, prince · prince-overseer · ruler (in other capacities) · princely things
How it's translated
- to ruler 7
- ruler 7
- a ruler 3
- the leader 3
- ruler of 2
- a leader 2
- chief 2
- a chief 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 12
- 2 Chronicles 9
- 1 Samuel 4
- 2 Samuel 3
- 1 Kings 3
- Daniel 3
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:26In contextAnd after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
- Daniel 11:22In contextAnd with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
- 1 Samuel 9:16To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
- 1 Samuel 10:1Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?
- 1 Samuel 13:14But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
- 1 Samuel 25:30And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
All 44 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נָגִיד nagid · leader
1) leader, ruler, captain, prince 1a) ruler, prince 1b) prince-overseer 1c) ruler (in other capacities) 1d) princely things
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leader” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LE'ADER, noun
- One that leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
- A chief; a commander; a captain.
- One who goes first.
- The chief of a party or faction; as the leader of the whigs or of the tories; a leader of the Jacobins.
All definitions
- a performer who leads a band or choir in music.
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.