Strong’s H5324 · Hebrew

נָצַב
nâtsab
naw-tsab'

Definition

to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • appointed
  • deputy
  • erect
  • establish
  • Huzzah (by mistake for a proper name)
  • lay
  • officer
  • pillar
  • present
  • rear up
  • set (over
  • up)
  • settle
  • sharpen
  • (make to) stand(-ing
  • still
  • up
  • upright)
  • best state

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.