נֵ֫צַח
ne.tsach
perpetuity
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# נֵצַח (Netzach): Perpetuity and Endurance The Hebrew word נֵצַח (netzach) denotes perpetuity—a state of continuing indefinitely without end. With 43 occurrences throughout the Bible, this term represents one of the primary lexical vehicles for expressing timelessness and permanence in ancient Hebrew thought. The word's frequency suggests it held considerable importance for biblical writers seeking to articulate concepts beyond normal temporal boundaries. The term appears designed to capture a quality of existence that extends beyond human lifespan or measurable duration. By appearing 43 times across the biblical corpus, נֵצַח establishes itself as a stable semantic unit rather than a rare or poetic anomaly. This distribution indicates that the concept of perpetuity was not marginal to biblical discourse but rather integral to how ancient Hebrew speakers and writers conceptualized lasting significance—whether applied to divine attributes, names, monuments, or promises. The word's primary definition as "perpetuity" positions it at the intersection of time and timelessness, offering biblical writers a concrete term for abstract permanence. Without additional context or usage examples from the provided data, the full range of its theological or practical applications cannot be specified; however, its sustained presence in biblical text demonstrates that expressing enduring, unending qualities was a regular communicative need for biblical authors.
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Occurrences in Scripture
43 total occurrences across the text
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Job 14:20You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
Job 20:7yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
Job 23:7There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
Job 34:36I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
Job 36:7He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
Psalms 9:6The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
Psalms 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
Psalms 10:11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
Psalms 13:1How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 16:11You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
Psalms 44:23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
Psalms 49:9that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
Psalms 49:19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
Psalms 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.
Psalms 74:1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 74:3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psalms 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Psalms 74:19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
Psalms 77:8Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
Psalms 79:5How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 89:46How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 103:9He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.
Proverbs 21:28A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.
Isaiah 13:20It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
Isaiah 25:8He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
Isaiah 28:28Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.
Isaiah 33:20Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
Isaiah 34:10It won’t be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.
Isaiah 34:10It won’t be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.
Isaiah 57:16For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
Jeremiah 3:5“ ‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”
Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Jeremiah 50:39Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein; and it will be inhabited no more forever; neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.
Lamentations 3:18I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
Lamentations 5:20Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
Amos 1:11Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
Amos 8:7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Habakkuk 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
Psalms 68:16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
1 Samuel 15:29Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
2 Samuel 2:26Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
1 Chronicles 29:11Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.