# H5387 נָשִׂיא

נָשִׂיא (nâsîyʼ), Strong’s H5387: properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist KJV: captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.. Occurs 134 times.

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*nâsîyʼ* — properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist

KJV: captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.

Derived from [נָשָׂא nâsâʼ](https://besorah.bible/word/H5375) (to lift)

Occurs 134 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [נָשִׂיא] n.[m.] rising mist, vapour
- נָשִׂיא n.m
- נָשִׂיא 128 n.m. one lifted up, i.e. a chief prince

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 17:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=20) — As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him…
- [Genesis 23:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=6) — “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold…
- [Genesis 25:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=16) — These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes…
- [Genesis 34:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=2) — Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
- [Exodus 16:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=22) — On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation…
- [Exodus 22:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=27) — “You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
- [Exodus 34:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=31) — Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
- [Exodus 35:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/35?v=27) — The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate;
- [Leviticus 4:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/4?v=22) — “‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which the LORD his God has commanded not to be…
- [Numbers 1:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=16) — These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of…