nochach · in front of, opposite

What it means

nochach (נֹכַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “in front of, opposite”.

Facing; also on behalf of, for the good of.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. On the opposite side, facing something.
2. On someone's behalf, asking for him.
3. Without turning aside, looking straight ahead.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• opposite ×10
• before ×7
• facing ×2
• front ×2
• behalf of ×1
• straight ahead ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×2
• Judges×3
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Esther×2
• Proverbs×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4

• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac pleaded with YHWH on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and YHWH granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods that he had peeled in the channels, in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink, in front of the flocks; and they mated when they came to drink.

• Exodus 26:35

  You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling; and the table you shall put on the north side.

• Exodus 40:24

  And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the dwelling southward,

• Numbers 19:4

  And Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.

• Joshua 15:7

  and the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and northward turned to Gilgal, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the brook; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and its ends were at En-rogel;

• Joshua 18:17

  and it bent northward and went out to En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, and went down to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben;

• Judges 18:6

  And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way on which you are going is before YHWH.”

• Judges 19:10

  But the man was not willing to spend the night; he arose and went and came as far as opposite Jebus, that is Jerusalem; and with him were a pair of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.

• Judges 20:43

  They surrounded Benjamin, pursued him, trod him down without rest as far as opposite Gibeah toward the sunrise.

• 1 Kings 20:29

  They encamped these opposite those seven days. And it happened on the seventh day that the battle was joined; and the sons of Israel struck Aram, a hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day.

• 1 Kings 22:35

  The battle rose that day, and the king was propped up in the chariot facing Aram; and he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound poured out into the bottom of the chariot.

• 2 Chronicles 18:34

  The battle rose that day, and the king was holding himself up in the chariot facing Aram until the evening; and he died at the time the sun went down.

• Esther 5:1

  And it happened on the third day that Esther put on royalty and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, opposite the king’s house; and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal house, opposite the entrance of the house.

• Proverbs 4:25

  Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids be directed straight before you.

• Proverbs 5:21

  For before the eyes of YHWH are the ways of a man, and all his tracks he levels.

• Jeremiah 17:16

  But I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you, and the day beyond remedy I have not desired; you know it; what comes out of my lips has been before your face.

• Lamentations 2:19

  Arise, cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out like water your heart before the face of Adonai; lift up to him your hands for the life of your little children who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”

• Ezekiel 14:3

  “Son of man, these men have taken up their idols into their heart, and the stumbling block of their iniquity they have put before their face. Should I let myself be consulted at all by them?

• Ezekiel 14:4

  Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Any man of the house of Israel who takes up his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet, I, YHWH, will answer him in it according to the multitude of his idols,

• Ezekiel 14:7

  For any man of the house of Israel, or of the resident aliens who reside in Israel, who separates himself from following me and takes up his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet to consult me for himself, I, YHWH, will answer him myself.

• Ezekiel 47:20

  And the side of the sea: the great sea, from the border to a point opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the side of the sea.

And 1 more times.