Hebrew verb · H5327
נָצָה
natsahnaw-tsaw'
to struggle; to desolate
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâtsâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5327is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5327
properly, to go forth, i.e. (by implication) to be expelled, and (consequently) desolate; causatively, to lay waste; also (specifically), to quarrel
The King James renders it: be laid waste, runinous, strive (together).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
natsah is rendered "to struggle; to desolate". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to struggle".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 2:13The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
Exodus 2:13נִצִּ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to struggle, and to desolate.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to struggleStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 2:13The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong… |
| to desolateStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they struggled together2
- ruined2
- struggling together1
- they struggled1
- they will be struggling together1
- they will fall in ruins1
- they will struggle together1
- when struggled they1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָצָא | natsa | to flee | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נִצִּ֖ים2
- בְּהַצֹּתָ֖ם1
- הִצּ֜וּ1
- וַיִּנָּצוּ֙1
- וַיִּנָּצ֤וּ1
- יִנָּצ֣וּ1
- יִנָּצ֨וּ1
- נִצִּ֑ים1
- תִּצֶּ֖ינָה1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural3HVNrmpa
- Hc/VNw3mp2Hc/VNw3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVNi3mp
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Vhcc/Sp3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVhp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine plural1HVqi3fp
Exodus
two uses
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
- נִצִּ֑יםnitzimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: struggling together
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
- יִנָּצ֣וּyinatzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will struggle together
Leviticus
one use
Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
- וַיִּנָּצוּ֙vaiyinatzuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they struggled together
Numbers
two uses
and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the congregation, who fought against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah who rebelled against the LORD.
- הִצּ֜וּhitzuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they struggled
- בְּהַצֹּתָ֖םbehatzotampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: when struggled they
Deuteronomy
one use
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
- יִנָּצ֨וּyinatzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be struggling together
2 Samuel
one use
And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
- וַיִּנָּצ֤וּvaiyinatzuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they struggled together
2 Kings
one use
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
- נִצִּ֖יםnitzimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: ruined
Isaiah
one use
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
- נִצִּ֖יםnitzimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: ruined
Jeremiah
one use
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
- תִּצֶּ֖ינָהtitzeinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will fall in ruins
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.