נֶצַח netsach

Meaning

properly, a goal, i.e. the bright object at adistance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objectively) confidence; but usually (adverbially), continually (i.e. to the most distant point of view)

In the King James Version: alway(-s), constantly, end, ([phrase] n-) ever(more), perpetual, strength, victory.

Derivation: or נֵצַח; from H5329 (נָצַח);

Where it is used

• 1 Samuel 15:29 Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
• 2 Samuel 2:26 Then Abner called out to Joab: “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?”
• 1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
• Job 4:20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
• Job 14:20 You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
• Job 20:7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
• Job 23:7 Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
• Job 34:36 If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
• Job 36:7 He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
• Psalms 9:6 The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
• Psalms 9:18 For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
• Psalms 10:11 He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
• Psalms 13:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
• Psalms 16:11 You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
• Psalms 44:23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
• Psalms 49:9 that he should live on forever and not see decay.
• Psalms 49:19 he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
• Psalms 52:5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
• Psalms 68:16 Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
• Psalms 74:1 A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
• Psalms 74:3 Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
• Psalms 74:10 How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
• Psalms 74:19 Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
• Psalms 77:8 Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?
• Psalms 79:5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
• Psalms 89:46 How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
• Psalms 103:9 He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
• Proverbs 21:28 A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.
• Isaiah 13:20 She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
• Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
• Isaiah 28:28 Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
• Isaiah 33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
• Isaiah 34:10 It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
• Isaiah 57:16 For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.
• Jeremiah 3:5 Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
• Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
• Jeremiah 50:39 So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
• Lamentations 3:18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
• Lamentations 5:20 Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
• Amos 1:11 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.
• Amos 8:7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
• Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.