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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. 2 Samuel 13:36וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ · loudly
    And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.
  2. 2 Samuel 14:14יִשָּׂ֤א · take away
    For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
  3. 2 Samuel 15:24נֹֽשְׂאִים֙ · were carrying
    Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had passed out of the city.
  4. 2 Samuel 17:13וְהִשִּׂ֧יאוּ · will bring
    If he retreats to a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a pebble can be found there.”
  5. 2 Samuel 18:15נֹשְׂאֵ֖י · who carried
    And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.
  6. 2 Samuel 18:24וַיִּשָּׂ֤א · looked out
    Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
  7. 2 Samuel 18:28נָשְׂא֥וּ · raised
    Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”
  8. 2 Samuel 19:42נִשֵּׂ֥את · received anything; נִשָּׂ֖א
    And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”
  9. 2 Samuel 20:21נָשָׂ֤א · has lifted
    That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
  10. 2 Samuel 23:16וַיִּשְׂא֖וּ
    So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,
  11. 2 Samuel 23:37נֹשְׂאֵי · the armor-bearer
    Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,
  12. 1 Kings 1:5מִתְנַשֵּׂ֥א · began to exalt himself
    At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.
  13. 1 Kings 2:26נָשָׂ֜אתָ · you carried
    Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
  14. 1 Kings 5:9תִשָּׂ֑א · can take them away
    My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”
  15. 1 Kings 5:15נֹשֵׂ֣א · porters
    Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
  16. 1 Kings 8:3וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ · took up
    When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark,
  17. 1 Kings 9:11נִשָּׂ֨א · who had supplied
    King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
  18. 1 Kings 10:2נֹשְׂאִ֨ים · bearing
    She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.
  19. 1 Kings 10:11נָשָׂ֥א · brought
    (The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
  20. 1 Kings 10:22נֹֽשְׂאֵת֙ · bearing
    For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
  21. 1 Kings 13:29וַיִּשָּׂ֨א · lifted up
    So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.
  22. 1 Kings 14:28יִשָּׂאוּם֙ · would bear the shields
    And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
  23. 1 Kings 15:22וַיִּשְׂא֞וּ · and they carried away
    Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.
  24. 1 Kings 18:12יִֽשָּׂאֲךָ֙ · may carry you off
    I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
  25. 2 Kings 2:16נְשָׂאוֹ֙ · has taken him up
    “Look now,” they said to Elisha, “we your servants have fifty valiant men. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and put him on one of the mountains or in one of the valleys.” “Do not send them,” Elisha replied.
  26. 2 Kings 3:14נֹשֵׂ֑א · for my regard
    Then Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not for my regard for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at you or acknowledge you.
  27. 2 Kings 4:19שָׂאֵ֖הוּ · Carry him
    “My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
  28. 2 Kings 4:20וַיִּשָּׂאֵ֔הוּ · After [the servant] had picked him up
    After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
  29. 2 Kings 4:36שְׂאִ֥י · Pick up
    Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
  30. 2 Kings 4:37וַתִּשָּׂ֥א · Then she picked up
    She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.
  31. 2 Kings 5:1וּנְשֻׂ֣א · and highly regarded
    Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
  32. 2 Kings 5:23וַיִּשְׂא֖וּ · who carried them
    But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.
  33. 2 Kings 7:8וַיִּשְׂא֣וּ · Then they carried off; וַיִּשְׂא֣וּ · carried off [some items]
    When the lepers reached the edge of the camp, they went into a tent to eat and drink. Then they carried off the silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid them. On returning, they entered another tent, carried off some items from there, and hid them.
  34. 2 Kings 9:25שָׂ֚א · Pick him up; נָשָׂ֣א · lifted up
    And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
  35. 2 Kings 9:26שָׂ֧א · pick him up
    ‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
  36. 2 Kings 9:32וַיִּשָּׂ֤א · He looked up
    He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
  37. 2 Kings 14:10וּֽנְשָׂאֲךָ֖ · has become proud
    You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
  38. 2 Kings 14:20וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ · They carried him back
    They carried him back on horses and buried him in Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.
  39. 2 Kings 18:14אֶשָּׂ֑א · and I will pay
    So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  40. 2 Kings 19:4וְנָשָׂ֣אתָ · Therefore lift up
    Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
  41. 2 Kings 19:22וַתִּשָּׂ֥א · and lifted
    Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  42. 2 Kings 20:17וְנִשָּׂ֣א׀ · will be carried off
    The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
  43. 2 Kings 23:4וְנָשָׂ֥א · and carried
    Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
  44. 2 Kings 25:13וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ · 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 the bronze to Babylon.
  45. 2 Kings 25:27נָשָׂ֡א · he released
    On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
  46. 1 Chronicles 5:18נֹשְׂאֵ֨י · who carried
    The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors—valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.
  47. 1 Chronicles 10:4נֹשֵׂ֨א · his armor-bearer
    Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.