נָחָה
na.chah (H5148)
to lead
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# נָחָה (nachah): "To Lead" The Hebrew verb נָחָה appears 39 times throughout the Bible with the fundamental meaning "to lead." This term describes the action of guiding or directing someone or something from one place to another, encompassing both physical movement and figurative direction. The word captures the essential act of showing the way, whether by accompanying someone on a journey or by providing guidance toward a destination. The relatively frequent occurrence of this verb (39 instances) suggests it held practical and theological importance in biblical Hebrew. Its usage likely spans contexts ranging from everyday guidance—such as leading people through terrain—to more abstract applications. The verb's consistent meaning across these contexts indicates that ancient Hebrew speakers understood "leading" as a central concept for describing directional authority and guidance, making it significant for narratives involving travel, divine direction, and human responsibility for others. Without access to specific verse citations and contextual examples from the lexicon data provided, we cannot determine the precise range of grammatical constructions or all specific scenarios where the verb appears. However, the basic semantic field of "to lead" establishes this as a foundational word for describing acts of guidance and movement in biblical texts.
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He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.
When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;
Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.
Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?
From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth.
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.
Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?
See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.