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נָשָׂא (H5375)

nâsâʼ

naw-saw'

or נָסָה; (Psalm 4:6 (אֲבַד)), a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative; accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable ([phrase] man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, [idiom] needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, [phrase] swear, take (away, up), [idiom] utterly, wear, yield.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

נָשָׂא 656 vb. lift, carry, take
Qal
1 lift, lift up
2 Bear, carry
3 Take, take away
Niph.
1 be lifted up
2 refl. lift oneself up = rise up, of י׳, to display power in judgment
3 be borne, carried
4 be taken away, carried off
Pi.
1 lift up = exalt
2 fig. = desire, long
3 carry, bear continuously
4 take, take away
Hithp. lift oneself up
Hiph.
1 cause one to bear iniquity
2 appar. cause to bring, have brought

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


611 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 21:18
    Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
  • Genesis 22:4
    Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
  • Genesis 22:13
    And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
  • Genesis 24:63
    And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
  • Genesis 24:64
    And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
  • Genesis 27:3
    Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
  • Genesis 27:38
    And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
  • Genesis 29:1
    Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
  • Genesis 29:11
    And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
  • Genesis 31:10
    And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.