נָסַחnâçach
נָסַח: pull or tear away
Pronunciation: naw-sakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5255
Meanings
Qal: tear down, tear away (Proverbs 15:25; Psalms 52:7; Proverbs 2:22)
Niph`al: be torn away (Deuteronomy 28:63)
ᵑ7: pull away
Hithpe`el: be pulled away (Ezra 6:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 28:63 “Just as the Lord has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper and multiply, the Lord will find pleasure in destroying you. You will be torn from the land you are about to enter and occupy.
- Psalms 52:5 But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude
- Proverbs 2:22 But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted.
- Proverbs 15:25 The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he protects the property of widows.
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).