נָסַגnâçag
move away, backslide
Pronunciation: naw-sag' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5253
Meanings
Qal: backslide, prove recreant to ׳ י (Psalms 53:4; Psalms 80:19; Proverbs 14:14)
Niph`al
1. turn oneself away, turn back
b. = prove faithless (as Qal) (Jeremiah 38:22; Zephaniah 1:6; Isaiah 59:13)
2. be truned or driven back, be repulsed (Jeremiah 46:5; Isaiah 42:17; Psalms 35:4)
Hiph`il
1. usually of displacing, moving back a boundary mark (Deuteronomy 19:14; Proverbs 22:10; Job 24:2)
2. remove carry away (Micah 6:14)
Hoph`al: is driven back (Isaiah 59:14)
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 19:14 “When you arrive in the land the Lord your God is giving you as your special possession, you must never steal anyone’s land by moving the boundary markers your ancestors set up to mark their property.
- Deuteronomy 27:17 ‘Cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker.’ And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’
- Proverbs 22:28 Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers set up by previous generations.
- Proverbs 23:10 Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers; don’t take the land of defenseless orphans.
- Isaiah 59:13 We know we have rebelled and have denied the Lord. We have turned our backs on our God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
- Isaiah 59:14 Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).