Raised, Exalted, Elected ; LXX., iryai,4Epos, eipxcey, a. word applied to the chiefs of the families of which a tribe was composed, rn2Nri roz (vrro Num. iii. 24, 30, 32, 35 ; XVi. 2, etc. (as many as 250 on one occasion, Num. xvi. 2) ; and who, as Deputies (Commoners) at the National Assembly are also called rrirri'), Nusis of the congregation, or 9N1t.:,,,,Nasis of Israel (elected, cal led to the assembly, ,N4-)p). But it was also used of the twelve supreme chiefs of the tribes themselves town (nmurrnri) Num. ii, 3, ff. ; vii. 2, ff. ; 32, etc. Both these dignities, the chiefdom of a family as well-as that of a tribe, would appear to have been elective-corresponding to the word t•Z'' 'V.: -not hereditary, as Michaelis and Winer hold. The Nasi of Judah f. Nahshon b. Aminadab, does not descend from the first line of the tribe (Num.
ii., cf. Chron: 9, to). The Nasi of Issachar, again, is called Nathaniel I). Shuar, a nante not found among the eldest sons of this tribe (1 Chron. vii. 1-3.) Finally, in the table of the Nasis-no doubt the chiefs of the tribes-to whom the division of the Promised Land was entrusted by Moses at his death, no son of the Nasis of the desert occurs (Munk P., p. 194.).-N4V) is further employed for generals, under a head (L"'N-1) Chron. vit. 4o; of Abraham, cor6t.. a Nasi of God, a mighty Sheikh ; for Nonismelitish 'Princes :' of the ites (Josh. xiii. 2 I), and of the Hivites (Shechem) (Gen. xxxiv. 2). On the Maccaban coins Shimeon is called 11,-;t;,Ti Nasi of Israel.' Nasi was also the official name of the president of the Synedrium (under whom stood the 1'1 11'2.01N, father of the tribunal, or vice-president'), whose seat was in the middle of the 7r members (Maim. :lad. Chaz. xiv ., Syn. i.) Feta I; from ipt, to appoint ; an ofker, official, magistrate, applied to the ecclesiastical delegate of the High Priest (VN171171Z ,n) who, toge ther with the king's scribe, had to empty the chcst containing the contribution to the Temple (2 Chron. xxiv. 1) ; to the Lcvites (Neh. xi. 22); to the 'chief' of the Temple -on -opt (Jer. xx. 1, 2); to officers in the House of the Lord' (Jer. xxix. 26) ; to a mili tary .commandcr (2 Kings xxv. 19), Itnti. 911 rporbn (Jer. 25), and to his adjutant or prin cipal manager (Judg. ix. 2S). Further, to the offi cers whom Joseph suggested that Pharaoh should put over Egypt during the years of the famine (Gen. xli. 34) ; to those who were to gather all the virgins unto Shushan for Ahasuerus (Esth. ii. 3); to prefects, 'overseers,' etc. (Nch. xi. 9 ; xii. 42), and finally to the nobles or princes' of the kirag (Jer. xx. ; Chron. xxxv. 8).
Shedlit, Hebr. and Aram. :(from V9V, to rule, have power, Arab. cf. IL..., sultan). One who hath power' (Eccles. viii 8); Arioch,
the king's captain' (Dan. ii. 15) ; Joseph, the governor over the land' (Gen. xlii. 6) ; a mighty man,' or hero (Eccles. vii. 19); a 'king' or satrap (Ezra iv. 2o) ; Daniel, the third 'ruler' (Dan. v.
29), etc. The verb DV,P is also used in later He brew in the sense : to have power,' of evil hours, evil spirits (-1S4 rrl), etc.
.411a2ph (from rizst ; Arab. L__.8j, to join, etc.) ; Pesh. ; originally, one who is put over a thousand' or +71N, viz. the round number of families, rozN nn, nvinvn, which constitute a clan or subdivision of a tribe (cf. old Saxon Hun dred') ; parallel with 11, Is. lx. 22 ; and ZN ron it self, Judg. vi. 15. First used of the chiefs, dukes' of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. ; Chron. 51), we find it at a later period also applied to Jewish chiefs (Zech. ix. 7 ; xii. 5, 6). This word is not to be con founded either with the n,tht.; e'N-1, the captain of a body of thousand men (xarcipxos, LXX.) or with the 'rulers of thousands,' a kind of magis trates, selected by Moses, on the advice of Jethro, for the purpose of judging the smaller matters dur ing the sojourn of the Israelites in the desert ; and who were, at a later period, superseded by the regular institution of the In'in1V, Judges. The further use of the word in the sense of friend ' (parallel with 3n, companion, Mich. vii. 5, Prov. xvi.
28, or rim acquaintance, Ps. Iv. 14) ; [cf. Arab.
and of husband frl"113/.) 1,.1), 'friend, companion of her youth' must be traced directly to the root (see above), since our 164, governor, can only be derived from the derivative a thousand. It may further be noticed here, that Matt. ii. 6 seems to have read the passage iu Micah v. 2, ',pt•;:, • • among the thousands [clans] of Judah;' as among the princes of Judah.' Derived from the Partic. Act. (Kal and Piel) are the following four : pph, ppm, Chokek, Meehokek (from ppn), lit.
an engraver, a writer (cf. ypcicpw.,),-scil. of laws (ph, pr, p71., law, decree; ar. a lawgiver, Gen. xlix. lo, Deut. xxxiii. 21 ; one who decides by the law : a judge, Is. x. 1, parallel with in,nmn, they that write ;' with LZtvp Erntym 1D117, they that handle the pen of the writer,' Judg. v. 14 ; 'the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Law-giver, the Lord is our King ' (Is. xxxiii. 22) ; I'rinces decree justice' (Prov. vni. 15), etc. The Talmud has retained the original meaning of en graving, painting, writing, e. g., Inv, Gem. Pes. a, is explained by '1D1C: ‘n+ppviri nri of the engravers, scribes,' (Aruch, s. v.), and the imitation implied in the notion of drawing' has become fixed in the word riPti, Chul. b, riN rpm that he shall not imitate the Sadducees.' t;b, mashez; 6em, to be strong = ar.