נָשָׂא

na.sa · to lift: bear

Hebrew · Strong's H5375 · Verb · Sounds like: naw-saw' · 656 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to lift: bear H5375H · a Meaning of 220
  • to lift: raise H5375G 131
  • to lift: look H5375M · a Meaning of 48
  • to lift: kindness H5375Q · a Meaning of 41
  • to lift: loud H5375N · a Meaning of 40
  • to lift: guilt H5375J · a Meaning of 39
  • to lift: vow H5375P · a Meaning of 26
  • to lift: forgive H5375I · a Meaning of 25
  • to lift: bearing(armour) H5375W · a Meaning of 22
  • to lift: exalt H5375L · a Meaning of 13
  • to lift: marry H5375U · a Meaning of 10
  • to lift: count H5375V · a Meaning of 10
  • to lift: trust H5375O · a Meaning of 9
  • to lift: aid H5375K · a Meaning of 8
  • to lift: fight H5375R · a Meaning of 6
  • to lift: enthuse H5375S · a Meaning of 5
  • to lift: journey H5375T · a Meaning of 2
  • to lift: give(gift) H5375X · a Meaning of 1

Strong's dictionary

or נָסָה; (Psalm 4:6 (אֲבַד)), a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative; 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 ([phrase] man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, [idiom] needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, [phrase] swear, take (away, up), [idiom] utterly, wear, yield.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
נָשָׂא 656 vb. lift, carry, take
Qal
1. lift, lift up
2. Bear, carry
3. Take, take away
Niph.
1. be lifted up
2. refl. lift oneself up = rise up, of י׳, to display power in judgment
3. be borne, carried
4. be taken away, carried off
Pi.
1. lift up = exalt
2. fig. = desire, long
3. carry, bear continuously
4. take, take away
Hithp. lift oneself up
Hiph.
1. cause one to bear iniquity
2. appar. cause to bring, have brought

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Kings 1:5 מִתְנַשֵּׂ֥א mit.na.Se' · An -ing word: doing it to oneself

    Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

  2. 1 Kings 2:26 נָשָׂ֜אתָ na.Sa.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

  3. 1 Kings 5:9 תִשָּׂ֑א ti.Sa' · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

  4. 1 Kings 5:15 נֹשֵׂ֣א no.Se' · An -ing word: simple action

    And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

  5. 1 Kings 8:3 וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ vai.yis.'U · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

  6. 1 Kings 9:11 נִשָּׂ֨א ni.Sa' · An action: strong action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and fir-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

  7. 1 Kings 10:2 נֹשְׂאִ֨ים no.se.'Im · An -ing word: simple action

    And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

  8. 1 Kings 10:11 נָשָׂ֥א na.Sa' · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug-trees and precious stones.

  9. 1 Kings 10:22 נֹֽשְׂאֵת֙ no.se.'Et · An -ing word: simple action

    For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

  10. 1 Kings 13:29 וַיִּשָּׂ֨א vai.yi.Sa' · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.

  11. 1 Kings 14:28 יִשָּׂאוּם֙ yi.sa.'Um · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And it was so, that, as oft as the king went into the house of Jehovah, the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

  12. 1 Kings 15:22 וַיִּשְׂא֞וּ vai.yis.'U · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

  13. 1 Kings 18:12 יִֽשָּׂאֲךָ֙ yi.sa.'a.Kha · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me: but I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

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