נָשַׂגnâsag
reach, overtake
Pronunciation: naw-sag' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5381
Meanings
Hiph`il
1. overtake
2.
a. reach, attain to (Job 41:18; Proverbs 2:19; Isaiah 35:10)
b. cause to reach, bring, put (1 Samuel 14:26)
3. i.e. one is able, or has enough (Leviticus 5:11; Leviticus 14:21; Leviticus 25:26)
Where it appears
Appears 50 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:25 Laban caught up with Jacob as he was camped in the hill country of Gilead, and he set up his camp not far from Jacob’s.
- Genesis 44:4 But when they had gone only a short distance and were barely out of the city, Joseph said to his palace manager, “Chase after them and stop them. When you catch up with them, ask them, ‘Why have you repaid my kindness with such evil?
- Genesis 44:6 When the palace manager caught up with the men, he spoke to them as he had been instructed.
- Genesis 47:9 Jacob replied, “I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years. But my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors.”
- Exodus 14:9 The Egyptians chased after them with all the forces in Pharaoh’s army—all his horses and chariots, his charioteers, and his troops. The Egyptians caught up with the people of Israel as they were camped beside the shore near Pi-hahiroth, across from Baal-zephon.
- Exodus 15:9 “The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them and catch up with them. I will plunder them and consume them. I will flash my sword; my powerful hand will destroy them.’
See every passage
- Genesis 31:25, 44:4, 44:6, 47:9
- Exodus 14:9, 15:9
- Leviticus 5:11, 14:21, 14:22, 14:30, 14:31, 14:32, 25:26, 25:47, 25:49, 26:5, 27:8
- Numbers 6:21
- Deuteronomy 19:6, 28:2, 28:15, 28:45
- Joshua 2:5
- 1 Samuel 14:26, 30:8
- 2 Samuel 15:14
- 2 Kings 25:5
- 1 Chronicles 21:12
- Job 24:2, 27:20, 41:26
- Psalms 7:5, 18:37, 40:12, 69:24
- Proverbs 2:19
- Isaiah 35:10, 51:11, 59:9
- Jeremiah 39:5, 42:16, 52:8
- Lamentations 1:3
- Ezekiel 46:7
- Hosea 2:7, 10:9
- Zechariah 1:6
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).