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Word Study · Strong's H5375 · Hebrew

נָשָׂא

nasa

naw-saw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: nâsâʼ

to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative

Rendered in the KJV as

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.

  • 656
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 22 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 297
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 297

  • וַיִּשָּׂ֥א14
  • וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ11
  • נֹשֵׂ֣א10
  • וַיִּשָּׂ֨א9
  • נֹשְׂאֵ֖י9
  • וַיִּשְׂא֣וּ8
  • לָשֵׂ֥את7
  • אֶשָּׂ֣א6
  • וְנָשָׂ֥א6
  • לָשֵׂ֖את6
  • וַיִּשָּׂ֤א5
  • וַיִּשָּׂ֣א5

and 285 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 249

  • and he lifted up34
  • lift up24
  • [the] bearers of16
  • to carry15
  • [the] bearer of11
  • and they lifted up10
  • and he will bear9
  • carrying9
  • he will lift up7
  • I lift up7
  • and [the] bearer of6
  • and they carried6

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 111

  • Hc/Vqw3ms41
  • Hc/Vqw3mp36
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular29
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)26
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)25
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singular19
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural19
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular17
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural17
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 2nd person masculine singular16
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular16
  • Hc/Vqq3ms15
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • Hc/Vqw3ms · 41
  • Hc/Vqw3mp · 36
  • HVqi3ms · 29
  • HVqrmpc · 26
  • HR/Vqcc · 25
  • HVqi1cs · 19
  • HVqi3mp · 19
  • HVqrmsa · 17
  • HVqv2mp · 17
  • HVqi2ms · 16
  • HVqp3ms · 16
  • Hc/Vqq3ms · 15

The first 500 of 656, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Isaiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis46 occurrences
Exodus33 occurrences
Leviticus22 occurrences
Numbers47 occurrences
Deuteronomy20 occurrences
Joshua24 occurrences
Judges10 occurrences
Ruth4 occurrences
1 Samuel32 occurrences
2 Samuel23 occurrences
1 Kings13 occurrences
2 Kings23 occurrences
1 Chronicles25 occurrences
2 Chronicles16 occurrences
Nehemiah5 occurrences
Job28 occurrences
Psalms49 occurrences
Proverbs9 occurrences
Ecclesiastes2 occurrences
Song of Solomon1 occurrence
Isaiah58 occurrences
Jeremiah10 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).