נֶצַחnetsach

eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity

Pronunciation: neh'-tsakh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5331

Meanings

1. eminence (1 Samuel 15:29; 1 Chronicles 29:11)

2. enduring of life, and so life itself as enduring (Lamentations 3:18)

3. endurance in time (Psalms 74:3; Proverbs 21:28; Psalms 49:20)

4. everlastingness, ever, usually לָנֶצַח for ever (2 Samuel 2:26; Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 25:8)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 43 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 15:29 And he who is the Glory of Israel will not lie, nor will he change his mind, for he is not human that he should change his mind!”
  • 2 Samuel 2:26 Abner shouted down to Joab, “Must we always be killing each other? Don’t you realize that bitterness is the only result? When will you call off your men from chasing their Israelite brothers?”
  • 1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.
  • Job 4:20 They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace.
  • Job 14:20 You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene. You disfigure them in death and send them away.
  • Job 20:7 yet they will vanish forever, thrown away like their own dung. Those who knew them will ask, ‘Where are they?’
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).