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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

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  • Jeremiah 13:20
    Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
  • Jeremiah 15:15
    O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
  • Jeremiah 17:21
    Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
  • Jeremiah 17:27
    But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
  • Jeremiah 22:27
    But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
  • Jeremiah 31:19
    Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
  • Jeremiah 44:14
    So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
  • Jeremiah 44:22
    So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
  • Jeremiah 49:29
    Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
  • Jeremiah 50:2
    Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.