To conduct
נָצַחStrong’s H5329natsach (na-tsach)
Appears in 65 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Natsach is the Hebrew word usually translated “choirmaster”, “act as overseers” and “overseers”. It appears in 65 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.”
Meaning
- To excel, be bright, be preeminent, be perpetual, be overseer, be enduring(Niphal) enduring (participle) · (Piel) to act as overseer or superintendent or director or chief
How it's translated
- to the choirmaster 56
- to act as overseers 5
- and overseers 1
- overseers 1
- and acting as overseers 1
- enduring 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 55
- 2 Chronicles 4
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Ezra 2
- Jeremiah 1
- Habakkuk 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 23:4Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
- 2 Chronicles 2:2And 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.
- 2 Chronicles 2:18And 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.
- 2 Chronicles 34:12And 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.
- 2 Chronicles 34:13Also 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.
- Ezra 3:8Now 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.
All 65 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נָצַח natsach · to conduct
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)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “conduct” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONDUCT, noun
[Latin, to lead. See Duke.]
- Literally, the act of leading; guidance; command.
- The act of convoying, or guarding; guidance or brining along under protection.
- Guard on the way; convoy; escort.
- In a general sense, personal behavior; course of actions; deportment; applicable equally to a good or a bad course of actions; as laudable conduct; detestable conduct The word seems originally to have been followed with life, actions, affairs, or other term; as the conduct of life; the conduct of actions; that is, the leading along of life or actions.
All definitions and other forms of “conduct”
- Exact behavior; regular life. [Unusual.]
- Management; mode of carrying on.
- The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at Eton College in England.
CONDUCT, verb transitive
- To lead; to bring along; to guide; to accompany and show the way.“And Judah came to Gilgal--to conduct the king over Jordan” 2 Samuel 19:15
- To lead; to direct or point out the way.
- To lead; to usher in; to introduce; to attend in civility.
- To give a direction to; to manage; applied to things; as, the farmer conducts his affairs with prudence.
- To lead, as a commander; to direct; to govern; to command; as, to conduct an army or a division of troops.
- With the reciprocal pronoun, to conduct ones self, is to behave.
- To escort; to accompany and protect on the way.
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.