נָגִיד
nāgîd
leader
Strong's H5057NounHebrewTWOT 1289b

נָגִיד (nāgîd) is a Hebrew noun meaning leader. It appears 44 times in 14 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5057).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1289b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1289b)leader, one in front, ruler, prince; commander, front, honorable; captain, chief, excellent thing, governor, noble
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

נָגִיד noun, masculine: leader, one in front, ruler, prince

leader (literally probably one in front), ruler, prince

Strong's H5057 נָגִיד: a commander (as occupying the front), civil, military or religious; generally (abstractly, plural), honorable themes
KJV:captain, chief, excellent thing, (chief) governor, leader, noble, prince, (chief) ruler.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1289: נָגַד nāgad — be conspicuous; declare, tell; be told, announced, reported; front, manifest, announce, expose, predict, explain, praise; bewray, certify, declareing, denounce, expound, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, shew, speak, utter

See it in Scripture

1 Samuel 9:162 Samuel 5:21 Kings 1:35

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