netsach · splendor, forever, victory

What it means

netsach (נֶצַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “splendor, forever, victory”.

A word with several senses: brightness or splendor, what endures (hence "forever"), firmness, victory. In 1 Samuel 15:29 it is a title of God, "the Splendor of Israel."

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. Forever, without end; with not, never again.
2. What endures in brilliance; "the Glory of Israel", that is, YHWH.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• forever ×27
• never ×5
• end ×2
• ever and ever ×2
• perpetual ×2
• Splendor ×1
• always ×1
• eminence ×1
• ever ×1
• vigor ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×6
• Psalms×18
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×2
• Amos×2
• Habakkuk×1

• 1 Samuel 15:29

  And also the Splendor of Israel does not lie and does not relent, for he is not a human being that he should relent.”

• 2 Samuel 2:26

  Abner called to Joab and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitterness in the end? And how long will you not tell the people to turn back from following their brothers?”

• 1 Chronicles 29:11

  Yours, YHWH, are the greatness and the might and the beauty and the eminence and the splendor, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours. Yours, YHWH, is the kingdom, and you are the one who exalts himself as head over all.

• Job 4:20

  From morning to evening they are shattered; without anyone noticing they perish forever.

• Job 14:20

  You prevail over him forever, and he goes; changing his face, you send him away.

• Job 20:7

  like his dung he will perish forever; those who saw him will say, ‘Where is he?’

• Job 23:7

  There an upright man could argue with him, and I would go free forever from my judge.

• Job 34:36

  Would that Job were tested to the end for his answers like men of wickedness!

• Job 36:7

  He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, and with kings on the throne he seats them forever, and they are exalted.

• Psalms 9:6

  The enemy has come to an end: ruins forever; cities you have uprooted; has perished their memory, theirs.

• Psalms 9:18

  For not forever will the needy be forgotten; the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever.

• Psalms 10:11

  He says in his heart, “El has forgotten; he has hidden his face; he will not see it ever.”

• Psalms 13:1

  For the director. A psalm of David. How long, YHWH? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

• Psalms 16:11

  You will make known to me the path of life; fullness of joys with your face; delights at your right hand forever.

• Psalms 44:23

  Wake up! Why do you sleep, Adonai? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.

• Psalms 49:9

  that he should live on forever and not see the pit.

• Psalms 49:19

  he will go to the generation of his fathers; they will never see light.

• Psalms 52:5

  El also will tear you down forever; he will seize you and tear you away from your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

• Psalms 68:16

  Why do you look with hostility, mountains of peaks, at the mountain Elohim desired to dwell in? Yes, YHWH will dwell there forever.

• Psalms 74:1

  A maskil of Asaph. Why, Elohim, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

• Psalms 74:3

  Lift up your footsteps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has damaged everything in the holy place.

• Psalms 74:10

  How long, Elohim, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy spurn your name forever?

• Psalms 74:19

  Do not give to the wild beast the soul of your turtledove; the life of your afflicted ones do not forget forever.

• Psalms 77:8

  Has his loyal love ceased forever? Has his word come to an end from generation to generation?

• Psalms 79:5

  How long, YHWH? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

• Psalms 89:46

  How long, YHWH? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your fury burn like fire?

• Psalms 103:9

  He will not always contend, nor forever will he bear a grudge.

• Proverbs 21:28

  A witness of lies will perish, but a man who listens will speak forever.

• Isaiah 13:20

  It will never be inhabited, nor be dwelt in from generation to generation; nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, nor shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

• Isaiah 25:8

  He will swallow up death forever, and Adonai YHWH will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will remove from all the earth, for YHWH has spoken.

• Isaiah 28:28

  Bread grain is crushed, but he does not keep threshing it forever; and though he drives the wheel of his cart and his horses, he does not crush it.

• Isaiah 33:20

  Gaze on Zion, the town of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, and none of its cords will be broken.

• Isaiah 34:10

  Night and day it will not be quenched; forever its smoke will rise; from generation to generation it will lie waste; for ever and ever no one will pass through it.

• Isaiah 57:16

  For not forever will I contend, nor forever will I be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breaths that I made.

• Jeremiah 3:5

  Will he keep it forever? Will he retain it to the end?’ Look, so you have spoken, but you have done evil things and have had your way.

• Jeremiah 15:18

  Why has my pain been perpetual, and my wound beyond remedy, refusing to be healed? Will you really be to me like a deceptive brook, waters that are not faithful?

• Jeremiah 50:39

  Therefore desert creatures will dwell with hyenas, and ostriches will dwell in it; and it will not be inhabited again forever, nor be dwelt in from generation to generation.

• Lamentations 3:18

  And I said, “My vigor has perished, and my hope from YHWH.”

• Lamentations 5:20

  Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for length of days?

• Amos 1:11

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke it; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and destroyed his compassion; and his anger tore continually, and his wrath he kept forever.

And 3 more times.