נָצַלnâtsal
נָצַל: strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver
Pronunciation: naw-tsal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5337
Meanings
1. tear oneself away, deliver oneself (Proverbs 6:3; Ezekiel 14:16; Ezekiel 14:18)
2. be torn, out or away (Amos 3:12; Genesis 32:31; Jeremiah 7:10)
Pi`el
1. strip of, spoil (2 Chronicles 20:25; Exodus 3:22; Exodus 12:36)
2. deliver (Ezekiel 14:14)
Hiph`il: construct (Exodus 12:27; Exodus 5:23; 2 Kings 17:39)
1. take away, snatch away (Genesis 31:9; Genesis 31:10; Hosea 2:11)
2. rescue, recover (Judges 11:26; 1 Samuel 30:8; 1 Samuel 30:18)
3. deliver from
a. enemies and troubles, from (1 Samuel 12:21; Proverbs 19:19; Isaiah 50:2)
b. from death (Proverbs 11:16; Proverbs 12:6; Joshua 2:13)
4. deliver (Psalms 39:9; Psalms 51:6; Psalms 79:9)
Hoph`al: plucked out (Amos 4:11; Zechariah 3:2)
Hithpa`el: stripped themselves (Exodus 33:6)
: Haph`el: rescue, deliver (Daniel 6:28; Daniel 3:29; Daniel 6:15)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 213 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:9 In this way, God has taken your father’s animals and given them to me.
- Genesis 31:16 All the wealth God has given you from our father legally belongs to us and our children. So go ahead and do whatever God has told you.”
- Genesis 32:11 O Lord, please rescue me from the hand of my brother, Esau. I am afraid that he is coming to attack me, along with my wives and children.
- Genesis 32:30 Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”
- Genesis 37:21 But when Reuben heard of their scheme, he came to Joseph’s rescue. “Let’s not kill him,” he said.
- Genesis 37:22 “Why should we shed any blood? Let’s just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness. Then he’ll die without our laying a hand on him.” Reuben was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his father.
See every passage
- Genesis 31:9, 31:16, 32:11, 32:30, 37:21, 37:22
- Exodus 2:19, 3:8, 3:22, 5:23, 6:6, 12:27, 12:36, 18:4, 18:8, 18:9, 18:10, 33:6
- Numbers 35:25
- Deuteronomy 23:14, 23:15, 25:11, 32:39
- Joshua 2:13, 9:26, 22:31, 24:10
- Judges 6:9, 8:34, 9:17, 10:15, 11:26, 18:28
- 1 Samuel 4:8, 7:3, 7:14, 10:18, 12:10, 12:11, 12:21, 14:48, 17:35, 17:37, 26:24, 30:8, 30:18, 30:22
- 2 Samuel 12:7, 14:6, 14:16, 19:9, 20:6, 22:1, 22:18, 22:49, 23:12
- 2 Kings 17:39, 18:29, 18:30, 18:32, 18:33, 18:34, 18:35, 19:11, 19:12, 20:6
- 1 Chronicles 11:14, 16:35
- 2 Chronicles 20:25, 25:15, 32:11, 32:13, 32:14, 32:15, 32:17
- Ezra 8:31
- Nehemiah 9:28
- Job 5:4, 5:19, 10:7
- Psalms 7:1, 7:2, 18:0, 18:17, 18:48, 22:8, 22:20, 25:20, 31:2, 31:15, 33:16, 33:19, 34:4, 34:17, 34:19, 35:10, 39:8, 40:13, 50:22, 51:14, 54:7, 56:13, 59:1, 59:2, 69:14, 70:1, 71:2, 71:11, 72:12, 79:9, 82:4, 86:13, 91:3, 97:10, 106:43, 107:6, 109:21, 119:43, 119:170, 120:2, 142:6, 143:9, 144:7, 144:11
- Proverbs 2:12, 2:16, 6:3, 6:5, 10:2, 11:4, 11:6, 12:6, 14:25, 19:19, 23:14, 24:11
- Isaiah 5:29, 19:20, 20:6, 31:5, 36:14, 36:15, 36:18, 36:19, 36:20, 37:11, 37:12, 38:6, 42:22, 43:13, 44:17, 44:20, 47:14, 50:2, 57:13
- Jeremiah 1:8, 1:19, 7:10, 15:20, 15:21, 20:13, 21:12, 22:3, 39:17, 42:11
- Ezekiel 3:19, 3:21, 7:19, 13:21, 13:23, 14:14, 14:16, 14:18, 14:20, 33:9, 33:12, 34:10, 34:12, 34:27
- Daniel 8:4, 8:7
- Hosea 2:9, 2:10, 5:14
- Amos 3:12, 4:11
- Jonah 4:6
- Micah 4:10, 5:6, 5:8
- Habakkuk 2:9
- Zephaniah 1:18
- Zechariah 3:2, 11:6
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).