נָשָׁאnâshâʼ
beguile, deceive
Pronunciation: naw-shaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5377
Meanings
Niph`al: have been beguiled (Isaiah 19:13)
Hiph`il: beguile (Jeremiah 49:16; Genesis 3:13; Obadiah 1:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 3:13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”
- 2 Kings 18:29 This is what the king says: Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you. He will never be able to rescue you from my power.
- 2 Kings 19:10 “This message is for King Hezekiah of Judah. Don’t let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you with promises that Jerusalem will not be captured by the king of Assyria.
- 2 Chronicles 32:15 Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you! Don’t let him fool you like this! I say it again—no god of any nation or kingdom has ever yet been able to rescue his people from me or my ancestors. How much less will your God rescue you from my power!”
- Psalms 55:15 Let death stalk my enemies; let the grave swallow them alive, for evil makes its home within them.
- Psalms 89:22 His enemies will not defeat him, nor will the wicked overpower him.
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).