Definition
a primitive root; to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
Traditional renderings: × at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, × without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, × surely, take (out).
Traditional renderings: × at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, × without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, × surely, take (out).
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders נָצַל:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
213 total
- Hosea 2:10יַצִּילֶ֥נָּה · will deliver herAnd then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
- Hosea 5:14מַצִּֽיל׃ · can rescue themFor I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.
- Amos 3:12יַצִּ֨יל · snatches; יִנָּצְל֞וּ · will be rescuedThis is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
- Amos 4:11מֻצָּ֣ל · snatched“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Jonah 4:6לְהַצִּ֥יל · to easeSo the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
- Micah 4:10תִּנָּצֵ֔לִי · you will be rescuedWrithe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
- Micah 5:6וְהִצִּיל֙ · So He will deliver usAnd they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.
- Micah 5:8מַצִּֽיל׃ · one to rescue themThen the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
- Habakkuk 2:9לְהִנָּצֵ֖ל · [and] escapeWoe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Zephaniah 1:18לְהַצִּילָ֗ם · to deliver themNeither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
- Zechariah 3:2מֻצָּ֥ל · snatchedAnd the LORD said to Satan: “The LORD rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?”
- Zechariah 11:6אַצִּ֖יל · deliver itFor I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”