# נָשִׂיא (nasi)

Israeli respelling: na-si. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5387. 120 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist

King James renderings: captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/nasi-h5387

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 17:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/17/20) — And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve pr…
- [Genesis 23:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/23/6) — Hear 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…
- [Genesis 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/25/16) — These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
- [Genesis 34:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/2) — And 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 16:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/22) — And 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…
- [Exodus 22:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/28) — Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
- [Exodus 34:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/31) — And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
- [Exodus 35:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/35/27) — And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
- [Leviticus 4:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/4/22) — When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which s…
- [Numbers 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/16) — These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
- [Numbers 1:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/44) — These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house…
- [Numbers 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/3) — And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahsho…
- [Numbers 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/5) — And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Iss…
- [Numbers 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/7) — Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.
- [Numbers 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/10) — On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be…
- [Numbers 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/12) — And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishad…
- [Numbers 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/14) — Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
- [Numbers 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/18) — On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be El…
- [Numbers 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/20) — And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- [Numbers 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/22) — Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
- [Numbers 2:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/25) — The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son…
- [Numbers 2:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/27) — And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
- [Numbers 2:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/29) — Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
- [Numbers 3:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/24) — And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
- [Numbers 3:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/30) — And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
- [Numbers 3:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/32) — And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge o…
- [Numbers 3:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/35) — And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabe…
- [Numbers 4:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/4/34) — And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of thei…
- [Numbers 4:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/4/46) — All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the hou…
- [Numbers 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/2) — That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered,…
- [Numbers 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/3) — And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an o…
- [Numbers 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/10) — And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the alt…
- [Numbers 7:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/11) — And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
- [Numbers 7:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/18) — On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
- [Numbers 7:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/24) — On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
- [Numbers 7:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/30) — On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:
- [Numbers 7:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/36) — On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:
- [Numbers 7:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/42) — On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:
- [Numbers 7:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/48) — On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
- [Numbers 7:54](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/54) — On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
- [Numbers 7:60](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/60) — On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:
- [Numbers 7:66](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/66) — On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:
- [Numbers 7:72](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/72) — On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
- [Numbers 7:78](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/78) — On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:
- [Numbers 7:84](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/84) — This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver b…
- [Numbers 10:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/4) — And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
- [Numbers 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/2) — Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye…
- [Numbers 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/2) — And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congreg…
- [Numbers 17:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/17/2) — Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes accord…
- [Numbers 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/17/6) — And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their…
- [Numbers 25:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/25/14) — Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chi…
- [Numbers 25:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/25/18) — For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a pr…
- [Numbers 27:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/27/2) — And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle…
- [Numbers 31:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/13) — And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
- [Numbers 32:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/2) — The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregati…
- [Numbers 34:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/18) — And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
- [Numbers 34:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/22) — And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
- [Numbers 34:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/23) — The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
- [Numbers 34:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/24) — And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
- [Numbers 34:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/25) — And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
- [Numbers 34:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/26) — And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
- [Numbers 34:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/27) — And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
- [Numbers 34:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/28) — And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
- [Numbers 36:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/36/1) — And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Jos…
- [Joshua 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/15) — And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
- [Joshua 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/18) — And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all t…
- [Joshua 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/19) — But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
- [Joshua 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/21) — And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the prince…
- [Joshua 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/21) — And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the pri…
- [Joshua 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/4) — And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to…
- [Joshua 22:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/14) — And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their…
- [Joshua 22:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/30) — And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words…
- [Joshua 22:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/32) — And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the…
- [1 Kings 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/1) — Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king…
- [1 Kings 11:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/34) — Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake,…
- [1 Chronicles 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/2/10) — And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
- [1 Chronicles 4:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/4/38) — These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
- [1 Chronicles 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/5/6) — Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
- [1 Chronicles 7:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/40) — All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number…
- [2 Chronicles 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/1/2) — Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, t…
- [2 Chronicles 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/5/2) — Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jeru…
- [Ezra 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/1/8) — Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of…
- [Psalms 135:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/135/7) — He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
- [Proverbs 25:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/14) — Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
- [Jeremiah 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/13) — When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;…
- [Jeremiah 51:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/16) — When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth:…
- [Ezekiel 7:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/27) — The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do…
- [Ezekiel 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/12/10) — Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among the…
- [Ezekiel 12:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/12/12) — And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carr…
- [Ezekiel 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/1) — Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
- [Ezekiel 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/12) — Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall…
- [Ezekiel 21:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/25) — And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
- [Ezekiel 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/6) — Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
- [Ezekiel 26:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/16) — Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they sh…
- [Ezekiel 27:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/21) — Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
- [Ezekiel 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/13) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a pr…
- [Ezekiel 32:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/29) — There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with th…
- [Ezekiel 34:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/24) — And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
- [Ezekiel 37:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/25) — And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, ev…
- [Ezekiel 38:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/2) — Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
- [Ezekiel 38:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/3) — And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
- [Ezekiel 39:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/1) — Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of M…
- [Ezekiel 39:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/18) — Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of…
- [Ezekiel 44:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/3) — It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and…
- [Ezekiel 45:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/7) — And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of t…
- [Ezekiel 45:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/8) — In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to…
- [Ezekiel 45:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/9) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away yo…
- [Ezekiel 45:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/16) — All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.
- [Ezekiel 45:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/17) — And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, an…
- [Ezekiel 45:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/22) — And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
- [Ezekiel 46:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/2) — And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall pre…
- [Ezekiel 46:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/4) — And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without b…
- [Ezekiel 46:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/8) — And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
- [Ezekiel 46:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/10) — And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
- [Ezekiel 46:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/12) — Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate…
- [Ezekiel 46:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/16) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be their poss…
- [Ezekiel 46:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/17) — But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the…
- [Ezekiel 46:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/18) — Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his…
- [Ezekiel 48:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/21) — And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over aga…
- [Ezekiel 48:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/22) — Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince’s, between…