To descend
נָחֵתStrong’s H5181nachat (na-chat)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will stretch”, “shattered” and “we descend”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
Meaning
- To go down, descend(Qal) · (Niphal) to come down into, penetrate · (Piel) to cause to descend, press down, stretch (a bow) · (Hiphil) to bring down
How it's translated
- and it will stretch 2
- they will be shattered 1
- will we descend 1
- they descend 1
- they have penetrated 1
- and it has come down 1
- you press down 1
- it goes deep 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Job 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:35He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
- Job 17:16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
- Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- Psalms 18:34He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
- Psalms 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
- Psalms 65:10Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
נָחֵת nachat · to descend
1) to go down, descend 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go down, descend 1a2) to descend, descend into (chastisement) (fig.) 1b) (Niphal) to come down into, penetrate 1c) (Piel) to cause to descend, press down, stretch (a bow) 1d) (Hiphil) to bring down Aramaic equivalent: ne.chat (נְחֵת "to descend" H5182)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “descend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESCEND, verb intransitive
[Latin To climb.]
- To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body.“The rains descended, and the floods came” Matthew 7:25
- To go down, or to enter.
- To come suddenly; to fall violently.
- To go in; to enter.
All definitions and other forms of “descend”
- To rush; to invade, as an enemy.
- To proceed from a source or original; to be derived.
- To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance.
- To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.
- To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense.
- In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.
DESCEND, verb transitive
To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.]
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.