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STRONGS NUMBER H5331
Transliteration: netsach
Phonetic Spelling: (neh'-tsakh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity
Meaning: eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity
Word Summary
netsach: eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity
Original Word: נֶצַחTransliteration: netsach
Phonetic Spelling: (neh'-tsakh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity
Meaning: eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity
Strong's Concordance
always, constantly, end, nevermore, perpetual, strength, victory Or netsach {nay'-tsakh}; from natsach; properly, a goal, i.e. The bright object at a distance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objectively) confidence; but usually (adverbially), continually (i.e. To the most distant point of view); --alway(-s), constantly, end, (+ n-)ever(more), perpetual, strength, victory.
see HEBREW natsach
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5331. netsach
I. נֵ֫צַח noun masculineLamentations 3:18 eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity (לנצח Ecclus 40:14 as 4 below); — נֵ֫צַח 1 Samuel 15:29 3t.; נֶ֫צַח Amos 1:11 36t.; suffix נִצְחִי Lamentations 3:18; plural נְצָחִים 34:10; —
1 eminence: ישׂראל נצח the Eminence of Israel (׳י) 1 Samuel 15:29 (DrSam. 98 glory of Israel); attribute of God 1 Chronicles 29:11 ("" תפארת הוד, et al.).
2 enduring of life, and so life itself as enduring: נִצְחִי אָבַד Lamentations 3:18 my endurance doth vanish (De sap of life, see II. ׳נ).
3 endurance in time: נ ׳משׁאות Psalm 74:3 perpetual desolations; ׳לנ יְדַבֵּר Proverbs 21:28 speaketh continually (?; see Toy); ׳עדנֿ Psalm 49:20 unto the end (a long duration), so Job 34:36.
4 everlastingness, ever, usually לָנֶצַח for ever, 2 Samuel 2:26; Isaiah 13:20; 25:8; 28:28; 33:20; 57:16; Jeremiah 3:5; 50:39; Amos 8:7; Habakkuk 1:4; Psalm 9:7; 9:19; 10:11; 44:24; 49:10; 52:7; 68:17; 74:1; 74:10; 74:19; 77:9; 79:5; 89:47; 103:9; Job 4:20; 14:20; 20:7; 23:7; 36:7; Lamentations 5:20; נצחים לנצח (compare עולמים עולם) Isaiah 34:10; seldom abbreviated נֶצַח Amos 1:11 (ᵐ5 ׳לָנ We Now GASm), Jeremiah 15:18; Psalm 13:2; 16:11.
II. נצח (√ of following; compare Arabic , Lane2806, 2807 sprinkle; BaES 52 compare Ethiopic spargere, aspergere Di677 (rare)).