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Descended

נָחֵתStrong’s H5185

nachet (na-chet)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Nachet is the Hebrew word usually translated “descending”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.”
2 Kings 6:9 KJV
Meaning
  1. Descending
How it's translated
  • descending 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Kings 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    נָחֵת nachet · descended

    descending

    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.]

    1. 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
    2. To go down, or to enter.
    3. To come suddenly; to fall violently.
    4. To go in; to enter.
    All definitions and other forms of “descend”
    1. To rush; to invade, as an enemy.
    2. To proceed from a source or original; to be derived.
    3. 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.
    4. To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.
    5. To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense.
    6. 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.