נָחָהnâchâh/naw-khaw'/
HebrewH514839 occurrences (KJV)
to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
KJV renders it: bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.
Where it appears
- Gen 24:27He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
- Gen 24:48I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.
- Exod 13:17When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;
- Exod 13:21Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- Exod 15:13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Exod 32:34Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
- Num 23:7He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
- Deut 32:12Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
- 1 Sam 22:4He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
- 1 Kgs 10:26Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
- 2 Kgs 18:11The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
- Neh 9:12Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
- Neh 9:19yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
- Job 12:23He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
- Job 31:18(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her I have guided from my mother’s womb);
- Job 38:32Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
- Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
- Ps 23:3He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- Ps 27:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
- Ps 31:3For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
- Ps 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
- Ps 60:9Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?
- Ps 61:2From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Ps 67:4Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
- Ps 73:24You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- Ps 77:20You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Ps 78:14In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
- Ps 78:53He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
- Ps 78:72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
- Ps 107:30Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.
- Ps 108:10Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?
- Ps 139:10Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
- Ps 139:24See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
- Ps 143:10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
- Prov 6:22When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
- Prov 11:3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
- Prov 18:16A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
- Isa 57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
- Isa 58:11and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.