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STRONG'S HEBREW DICTIONARY

H5176

נָחָשׁ

Strong numbering source: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).

Original wordנָחָשׁ
TransliterationNâchâsh
Pronunciation guidenaw-khawsh'

QUICK LEXICAL ENTRY

Definition

the same as נָחָשׁ; Nachash, the name of two persons apparently non-Israelite; Nahash.

BROWN–DRIVER–BRIGGS

Historical Hebrew lexicon

BDB supplies fuller lexical senses, grammatical notes, cognate material, and historical citations. A listed sense is not automatically the meaning of this word in every verse; context and grammar determine usage.

נָחָשׁ n.pr.m.
king of Ammon
father of Abigail and Zeruiah
giving name to a city

Source: Brown–Driver–Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping supplied by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); underlying BDB text is public domain.

CONCORDANCE

Where this word appears

9 verified lexical occurrences in the reviewed Old Testament alignment. Search or filter the concordance below.

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Source note

Strong numbering: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).

BDB: Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project. Open Scriptures data files are CC BY 4.0; the underlying BDB text is public domain.

Lexical relationships: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project LexicalIndex.xml (CC BY 4.0). Root/derivative relationships are displayed only when explicitly encoded in that source; The Bible Directory does not infer etymology from spelling.

Method: KJV wording is displayed as the site translation. Public Hebrew links use the reviewed CrossWire KJV source-span alignment; Hebrew surface forms and morphology come from STEP Bible TAHOT. Translation alignment, lexical identity, and morphology are stored as separate data layers. Ambiguous alignments remain plain text rather than being guessed.