Leader
נָשִׂיאStrong’s H5387nasi (na-si)
Appears in 120 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nasi is the Hebrew word usually translated “leader”, “leaders of” and “leaders”. It appears in 120 verses of the Old Testament.
“And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.”
Meaning
- One lifted up, chief, prince, captain, leader
- Rising mist, vapour
How it's translated
- a leader 15
- leaders of 14
- the leaders 13
- and leader 12
- leader 11
- the prince 11
- princes of 6
- to the prince 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 55
- Ezekiel 34
- Joshua 9
- Genesis 4
- Exodus 4
- 1 Chronicles 4
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 23:6Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
- Genesis 25:16These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
- Genesis 34:2And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
- Exodus 16:22And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
- Exodus 22:28Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
- Exodus 34:31And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
All 120 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נָשִׂיא nasi · leader
one lifted up, chief, prince, captain, leader
נָשִׂיא nasi · mist
rising mist, vapour
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.