Strong's Hebrew · H5331

H5331 netsach

נֶצַח

neh'-tsakh

perpetuity

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netsach appears 43 times in Scripture, including 1 Samuel 15:29 and 2 Samuel 2:26. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

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)

In the King James Version

alway(-s), constantly, end, ( n-) ever(more), perpetual, strength, victory.

Derivation

or נֵצַח; from H5329 (נָצַח);

Appears 43 times in Scripture

Job 14:20

“You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.”

Psalms 9:6

“The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.”

1 Chronicles 29:11

“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.”

Job 36:7

“He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.”

1 Samuel 15:29

“Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.””

Job 4:20

“They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.”

Job 20:7

“he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’”

2 Samuel 2:26

“Then Abner called out to Joab: “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?””

Job 23:7

“Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.”

Job 34:36

“If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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