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נָשָׂא

na.sato lift: raiseHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb655 occurrences37 books612 verses

Definition

or נָסָה; (Psalm 4:6 [7]), a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Traditional 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, × needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, swear, take (away, up), × utterly, wear, yield.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders נָשָׂא:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

655 total
  1. Isaiah 64:6יִשָּׂאֻֽנוּ׃ · carry us away
    Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
  2. Isaiah 66:12תִּנָּשֵׂ֔אוּ · and be carried
    For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.
  3. Jeremiah 3:2שְׂאִֽי־ · Lift up
    “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
  4. Jeremiah 4:6שְׂאוּ־ · Raise
    Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.
  5. Jeremiah 6:1שְׂא֣וּ · send up
    “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
  6. Jeremiah 7:16תִּשָּׂ֧א · offer
    As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
  7. Jeremiah 7:29וּשְׂאִ֥י · Raise up
    Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
  8. Jeremiah 9:10אֶשָּׂ֧א · I will take up
    I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
  9. Jeremiah 9:18וְתִשֶּׂ֥נָה · and take up
    Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
  10. Jeremiah 10:5נָשׂ֥וֹא · They must be carried; יִנָּשׂ֖וּא
    Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”
  11. Jeremiah 10:19וְאֶשָּׂאֶֽנּוּ׃ · and I must bear it
    Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
  12. Jeremiah 11:14תִּשָּׂ֥א · raise up
    As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
  13. Jeremiah 13:20שְׂאִי · Lift up
    Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?
  14. Jeremiah 15:15שְׂאֵתִ֥י · I endure
    You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.
  15. Jeremiah 17:21תִּשְׂא֤וּ · carry
    This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
  16. Jeremiah 17:27שְׂאֵ֣ת · carrying
    But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
  17. Jeremiah 22:27מְנַשְּׂאִ֥ים · long
    You will never return to the land for which you long.”
  18. Jeremiah 31:19נָשָׂ֖אתִי · I bore
    After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
  19. Jeremiah 44:14מְנַשְּׂאִ֤ים · long
    …so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”
  20. Jeremiah 44:22לָשֵׂ֗את · endure
    So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
  21. Jeremiah 49:29יִשְׂא֣וּ · They will take
    They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ‘Terror is on every side!’
  22. Jeremiah 50:2וּֽשְׂאוּ־ · lift up
    “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
  23. Jeremiah 51:9וְנִשָּׂ֖א · and reaches
    “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
  24. Jeremiah 51:12שְׂאוּ־ · Raise
    Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
  25. Jeremiah 51:27שְׂאוּ־ · Raise
    “Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
  26. Jeremiah 52:17וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ · and they carried
    Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
  27. Jeremiah 52:31נָשָׂ֡א · he pardoned
    On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
  28. Lamentations 2:19שְׂאִ֧י · Lift up
    Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
  29. Lamentations 3:27יִשָּׂ֥א · to bear
    It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
  30. Lamentations 3:41נִשָּׂ֤א · Let us lift up
    Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
  31. Lamentations 4:16נָשָׂ֔אוּ · are shown no honor
    The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.
  32. Lamentations 5:13נָשָׂ֔אוּ · toil
    Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
  33. Ezekiel 1:19וּבְהִנָּשֵׂ֤א · rose; יִנָּשְׂא֖וּ · also rose
    So as the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.
  34. Ezekiel 1:20יִנָּשְׂאוּ֙ · would rise
    Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
  35. Ezekiel 1:21וּֽבְהִנָּשְׂאָ֞ם · and when the creatures rose; יִנָּשְׂא֤וּ · rose
    When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
  36. Ezekiel 3:12וַתִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִי · lifted me up
    Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!”
  37. Ezekiel 3:14נְשָׂאַ֖תְנִי · lifted me up
    So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.
  38. Ezekiel 4:4תִּשָּׂ֖א · You are to bear
    Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.
  39. Ezekiel 4:5וְנָשָׂ֖אתָ · So you shall bear
    For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
  40. Ezekiel 4:6וְנָשָׂ֖אתָ · and bear
    When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
  41. Ezekiel 8:3וַתִּשָּׂ֣א · lifted me up
    He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
  42. Ezekiel 8:5שָׂא־ · lift up; וָאֶשָּׂ֤א · So I lifted up
    “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
  43. Ezekiel 10:7וַיִּשָּׂא֙ · and took [some of]
    Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand and took some of the fire that was among them. And he put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who received it and went out.
  44. Ezekiel 10:16וּבִשְׂאֵ֨ת · spread
    When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.
  45. Ezekiel 10:19וַיִּשְׂא֣וּ · lifted
    As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.
  46. Ezekiel 11:1וַתִּשָּׂ֨א · lifted me up
    Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.