Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
| Strong's Number: | H5375 |
|---|---|
| Word: | נָשָׂא נָסָה |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | a primitive root |
| Language: | Hebrew |
| Occurrences: | 658 |
| Transliteration: | nasa |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | naw-saw' (or nacah (Psalm 4) v. |
| Meaning: | 1. to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows) |
| KJV Renderings: | accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield. |
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נְשָׂא verb lift, take, carry (compare Biblical Hebrew; rare in Aramaic; see נְסִי, נְסָא ChWB, NHWB); —
נְשֵׁיהוֺן see [נָשִׁין] below II. אנשׁ.
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke
