nacha · lead, guide

What it means

nacha (נָחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lead, guide”.

Along the way; bring someone to a place.

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. To go before someone showing him the way, or to take him where he should go.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• lead me ×8
• he led them ×4
• guide me ×3
• lead ×3
• lead them ×3
• You led ×2
• you guide ×2
• I guided her ×1
• guides them ×1
• had led me ×1
• others ×11

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×4
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Job×3
• Psalms×18
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×2

• Genesis 24:27

  and said, “Blessed be YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, who has not abandoned his loyal love and his faithfulness toward my lord. As for me, YHWH has led me on the way to the house of my lord’s brothers.”

• Genesis 24:48

  And I bowed my head and bowed down to YHWH, and I blessed YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, who had led me on a true way to take the daughter of my lord’s brother for his son.

• Exodus 13:17

  When Pharaoh let the people go, Elohim did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although it was near; for Elohim said, “Lest the people relent when they see war and return to Egypt.”

• Exodus 13:21

  YHWH went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give light to them, so that they could travel by day and by night.

• Exodus 15:13

  In your loyal love you have led the people whom you redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.

• Exodus 32:34

  But now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Look, my angel shall go before you. But on the day when I call to account I will call them to account for their sin.”

• Numbers 23:7

  And he took up his poem and said, “From Aram Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me, from the mountains of the east: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!’

• Deuteronomy 32:12

  YHWH alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.

• 1 Samuel 22:4

  He led them before the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the days that David was in the stronghold.

• 1 Kings 10:26

  And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he stationed them in the cities for chariots and with the king in Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 18:11

  The king of Assyria carried Israel into exile to Assyria and led them to Halah and to the Habor, the river of Gozan, and to the cities of the Medes,

• Nehemiah 9:12

  And with a pillar of cloud you led them by day, and with a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should go.

• Nehemiah 9:19

  you, in your many mercies, did not abandon them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud did not depart from over them by day, to lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should go.

• Job 12:23

  He makes the nations great, and makes them perish; he spreads out the nations, and leads them.

• Job 31:18

  —for from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and from the womb of my mother I guided her—

• Job 38:32

  Can you bring out the constellations in their season, and the Bear with her children can you guide?

• Psalms 5:8

  YHWH, guide me in your righteousness because of those who lie in wait for me; make straight before me your way.

• Psalms 23:3

  He brings back my soul; he guides me along tracks of righteousness for the sake of his name.

• Psalms 27:11

  Teach me, YHWH, your way, and lead me on a level path because of those who lie in wait for me.

• Psalms 31:3

  For my crag and my fortress are you; and for the sake of your name you will lead me and guide me.

• Psalms 43:3

  Send your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwellings.

• Psalms 60:9

  Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

• Psalms 61:2

  From the end of the earth to you I call when my heart grows faint; to the rock that is higher than I guide me.

• Psalms 67:4

  Let the nations be glad and shout for joy, for you judge the peoples with uprightness, and the nations on the earth you guide. Selah.

• Psalms 73:24

  With your counsel you will guide me, and afterward with glory you will take me.

• Psalms 77:20

  You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

• Psalms 78:14

  And he led them with the cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire.

• Psalms 78:53

  And he led them in safety, and they were not in dread; but their enemies the sea covered.

• Psalms 78:72

  And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and with the understanding of his palms he led them.

• Psalms 107:30

  And they were glad because they grew quiet, and he guided them to the harbor of their desire.

• Psalms 108:10

  Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

• Psalms 139:10

  even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will take hold of me.

• Psalms 139:24

  And see if there is a way of pain in me, and lead me in the eternal way.

• Psalms 143:10

  Teach me to do your will, for you are my Elohim; may your good spirit lead me in a land of level ground.

• Proverbs 6:22

  When you walk about, it will lead you; when you lie down, it will watch over you; and when you awake, it will talk with you.

• Proverbs 11:3

  The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

• Proverbs 18:16

  A man’s gift makes room for him, and before the great it leads him.

• Isaiah 57:18

  His ways I have seen, and I will heal him; and I will lead him, and restore comforts to him and to those of his who mourn,

• Isaiah 58:11

  And YHWH will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in scorched places, and your bones he will strengthen; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not deceive.