נַחַשׁ
nachash · omen
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5173 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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nachash (נַחַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “omen”.
A sign by which someone tries to divine or to cast a spell.
How to say it
na·chash
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
- A sign diviners sought to tell the future or cast spells.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- omen ×1
- omens ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 23:23
For there is no omen against Jacob, and no divination against Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What El has done!’
- Numbers 24:1
When Balaam saw that it was good in the eyes of YHWH to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to meet omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.