נָצָהnâtsâh

נָצָה: struggle

Pronunciation: naw-tsaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5327

Meanings

Niph`al: reciprocal

Hiph`il: engage in a struggle against (Numbers 26:9; Psalms 60:2; 2 Samuel 8:3)

נָצָה: fall in ruins

Qal: (read probably תִּנָּצֶינָה Niph`al) (Jeremiah 4:7)

Niph`al: i.e. ruin-heaps (2 Kings 19:25; Isaiah 37:26; Jeremiah 2:15)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 11 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 2:13 The next day, when Moses went out to visit his people again, he saw two Hebrew men fighting. “Why are you beating up your friend?” Moses said to the one who had started the fight.
  • Exodus 21:22 “Now suppose two men are fighting, and in the process they accidentally strike a pregnant woman so she gives birth prematurely. If no further injury results, the man who struck the woman must pay the amount of compensation the woman’s husband demands and the judges approve.
  • Leviticus 24:10 One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father came out of his tent and got into a fight with one of the Israelite men.
  • Numbers 26:9 and Eliab was the father of Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. This Dathan and Abiram are the same community leaders who conspired with Korah against Moses and Aaron, rebelling against the Lord.
  • Deuteronomy 25:11 “If two Israelite men get into a fight and the wife of one tries to rescue her husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man,
  • 2 Samuel 14:6 My two sons had a fight out in the field. And since no one was there to stop it, one of them was killed.
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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).