A prince, chief — 'one lifted up' (from nasa, 'to lift, carry'). The Hittites call Abraham nesi Elohim, 'a prince of GOD' (23:6): NWT 'a chieftain of God'; KJV reads Elohim as a superlative, 'a mighty prince.' Both live in the phrase — a prince who belongs to God, and a godlike-great prince — and this translation keeps the divine name the Hittites actually spoke. In Numbers the plural nesi'im titles the twelve tribal CHIEFTAINS who stand with Moses at the census (Numbers 1:16, 44) — one lifted-up head per tribe; and it later titles Ezekiel's coming ruler. Leviticus 4:22 (already on these pages) puts the same title under the same law as everyone else: a nasi's unintentional sin gets its own graduated sacrifice, distinct from a commoner's only in which animal he brings, never in whether he needs one. The word gets its longest single workout in Numbers 7 (already on these pages), where all twelve chieftains bring an identical dedication-offering, one per day, in Numbers 2’s own marching order. ⚠ Numbers 34:18 then commands ‘one nasi, one nasi, from each tribe’ — the doubling is ordinary Hebrew for ‘one apiece’ — and the roster that follows does not deliver it: seven of the ten men (vv22-28) are given the title, and three (vv19-21: Caleb for Judah, Shemuel for Simeon, Elidad for Benjamin) are named without it. The text supplies no reason. Nearly the whole shelf reproduces the gap in both languages; the Douay-Rheims very nearly levels it, keeping the title for exactly one of the ten (Issachar at v26, ‘Phaltiel the prince’) — one the Hebrew titles too, so it never puts the word where the Hebrew does not. → first discussed at Gen 23:6