נָשָׂאnâsâʼ

lift, take, carry

Pronunciation: naw-saw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5375

Meanings

Pe`al: carry away, take (Daniel 2:35; Ezra 5:15)

Hithpa`el: make a rising, an insurrection (Ezra 4:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 656 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 4:13 Cain replied to the Lord, “My punishment is too great for me to bear!
  • Genesis 7:17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.
  • Genesis 13:6 But the land could not support both Abram and Lot with all their flocks and herds living so close together.
  • Genesis 13:10 Lot took a long look at the fertile plains of the Jordan Valley in the direction of Zoar. The whole area was well watered everywhere, like the garden of the Lord or the beautiful land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
  • Genesis 13:14 After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west.
  • Genesis 18:2 He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground.
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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).