Skip to content
mannafest.faith

Hebrew verb · H5381

נָשַׂג

nasagnaw-sag'

to overtake

50 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nâsag

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5381is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 19 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 47
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5381

to reach (literally or figuratively)

The King James renders it: ability, be able, attain (unto), (be able to, can) get, lay at, put, reach, remove, wax rich, [idiom] surely, (over-) take (hold of, on, upon).

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

nasag is rendered "to overtake". It stands 50 times in the Hebrew text, across nineteen books.

  • Twelve of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-seven different ways.

The first use

Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

Genesis 31:25וַיַּשֵּׂ֥ג

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in nineteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 20 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • it will reach10
  • and they overtook4
  • and they will overtake you3
  • and it will reach2
  • they will overtake2
  • ¿ will I overtake it1
  • and he overtook1
  • and he overtook them1
  • and he will overtake him1
  • and he will overtake us1
  • and I overtook them1
  • and may he overtake1

and 22 more, 50 uses in all

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.

נָשַׁקnashaqto kissUses35
נָשַׁךְnashakto biteUses16
נָשַׁלnashalto slipUses7
נָשַׁבnashabto blowUses3
נָשַׂקnasaqto kindleUses3
נָשַׁתnashathbe dryUses3
נָשַׁףnashaphto blowUses2
נָשַׁםnashamto pantUses1

The words it stands beside

All 50, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

47 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

  • תַּשִּׂ֖יג4
  • אַשִּׂ֖יג1
  • הַֽאַשִּׂגֶ֑נּוּ1
  • הַשֵּׂ֥ג1
  • הִשִּׂ֥יגָה1
  • הִשִּׂ֗יגוּ1
  • הִשִּׂ֖יגוּ1
  • הִשִּׂיג֖וּהָ1
  • הִשִּׂיג֣וּנִי1
  • וְאַשִּׂיגֵ֑ם1
  • וְהִשִּׂגָ֙נוּ֙1
  • וְהִשַּׂגְתָּם֙1

and 35 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular11HVhi3fs
  • Hc/Vhw3mp4Hc/Vhw3mp
  • Hc/Vhq3cp/Sp2ms3Hc/Vhq3cp/Sp2ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVhi3mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVhp3cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Vhj3ms
  • Hc/Vhq2ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vhq2ms/Sp3mp
  • Hc/Vhq3fs1Hc/Vhq3fs
  • Hc/Vhq3ms1Hc/Vhq3ms
  • Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp1bp1Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp1bp
  • Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp3ms
  • HC/Vhu1cs/Sp3mp1HC/Vhu1cs/Sp3mp

Genesis

four uses
  • Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

    Genesis 31:25

    • וַיַּשֵּׂ֥גvaiyasegHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he overtook
  • They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?

    Genesis 44:4

    • וְהִשַּׂגְתָּם֙vehisagtamHc/Vhq2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you will overtake them
  • When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.

    Genesis 44:6

    • וַֽיַּשִּׂגֵ֑םvaiyasigemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he overtook them
  • “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

    Genesis 47:9

    • הִשִּׂ֗יגוּhisiguverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have reached

Exodus

two uses
  • The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon.

    Exodus 14:9

    • וַיַּשִּׂ֤יגוּvaiyasiguHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they overtook
  • The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

    Exodus 15:9

    • אַשִּׂ֖יגʾasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will overtake

Leviticus

twelve uses
  • But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.

    Leviticus 5:11

    • תַשִּׂ֨יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will reach
  • If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,

    Leviticus 14:21

    • מַשֶּׂגֶת֒masegetverb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: reaching
  • and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

    Leviticus 14:22

    • תַּשִּׂ֖יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will reach
  • Then he must sacrifice the turtledoves or young pigeons, whichever he can afford,

    Leviticus 14:30

    • תַּשִּׂ֖יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will reach
  • one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.

    Leviticus 14:31

    • תַּשִּׂ֞יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will reach
  • This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”

    Leviticus 14:32

    • תַשִּׂ֥יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will reach
  • Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

    Leviticus 25:26

    • וְהִשִּׂ֣יגָהvehisigahHc/Vhq3fstagged: and it will reach
  • If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,

    Leviticus 25:47

    • תַשִּׂ֗יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will reach
  • either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

    Leviticus 25:49

    • הִשִּׂ֥יגָהhisigahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has reached
  • Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

    Leviticus 26:5

    • וְהִשִּׂ֨יגvehisigHc/Vhq3mstagged: and it will reach
    • יַשִּׂ֣יגyasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will reach
  • But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.

    Leviticus 27:8

    • תַּשִּׂיג֙tasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will reach

Numbers

one use
  • This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes, according to the law of his separation.”

    Numbers 6:21

    • תַּשִּׂ֣יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will reach

Deuteronomy

four uses
  • Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.

    Deuteronomy 19:6

    • וְהִשִּׂיג֛וֹvehisigoHc/Vhq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he will overtake him
  • And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:

    Deuteronomy 28:2

    • וְהִשִּׂיגֻ֑ךָvehisigukhaHc/Vhq3cp/Sp2mstagged: and they will overtake you
  • If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

    Deuteronomy 28:15

    • וְהִשִּׂיגֽוּךָ׃vehisigukhaHc/Vhq3cp/Sp2mstagged: and they will overtake you
  • All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.

    Deuteronomy 28:45

    • וְהִשִּׂיג֔וּךָvehisigukhaHc/Vhq3cp/Sp2mstagged: and they will overtake you

Joshua

one use
  • At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”

    Joshua 2:5

    • תַשִּׂיגֽוּם׃tasigumverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you will overtake them

1 Samuel

four uses
  • And when they entered the forest and saw the flowing honey, not one of them put his hand to his mouth, because they feared the oath.

    1 Samuel 14:26

    • מַשִּׂ֤יגmasigverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: reached
  • and David inquired of the LORD: “Should I pursue these raiders? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” the LORD replied, “for you will surely overtake them and rescue the captives.”

    1 Samuel 30:8

    • הַֽאַשִּׂגֶ֑נּוּhaassigenuquestion particle + verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will I overtake it
    • הַשֵּׂ֥גhasegverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to overtake
    • תַּשִּׂ֖יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will overtake

2 Samuel

one use
  • And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”

    2 Samuel 15:14

    • וְהִשִּׂגָ֙נוּ֙vehisiganuHc/Vhq3ms/Sp1bptagged: and he will overtake us

2 Kings

one use
  • but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

    2 Kings 25:5

    • וַיַּשִּׂ֥גוּvaiyasiguHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they overtook

1 Chronicles

one use
  • between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

    1 Chronicles 21:12

    • לְמַשֶּׂגֶת֒lemasegetpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: to overtaking

Job

three uses
  • Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

    Job 24:2

    • יַשִּׂ֑יגוּyasiguverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people reach
  • Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

    Job 27:20

    • תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּtasigehuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it overtakes him
  • The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

    Job 41:26

    • מַשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּmasigehuverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: reaches it

Psalms

four uses
  • then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

    Psalms 7:5

    • וְיַשֵּׂ֗גveyasegconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and may he overtake
  • I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.

    Psalms 18:37

    • וְאַשִּׂיגֵ֑םveasigemHC/Vhu1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I overtook them
  • For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

    Psalms 40:12

    • הִשִּׂיג֣וּנִיhisiguniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have overtaken me
  • Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.

    Psalms 69:24

    • יַשִּׂיגֵֽם׃yasigemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may it overtake them

Proverbs

one use
  • None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

    Proverbs 2:19

    • יַ֝שִּׂ֗יגוּyasiguverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they reach

Isaiah

three uses
  • So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

    Isaiah 35:10

    • יַשִּׂ֔יגוּyasiguverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will overtake
  • So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

    Isaiah 51:11

    • יַשִּׂיג֔וּןyasigunverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will overtake
  • Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

    Isaiah 59:9

    • תַשִּׂיגֵ֖נוּtasigenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: it reaches us

Jeremiah

three uses
  • But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

    Jeremiah 39:5

    • וַיַּשִּׂ֣גוּvaiyasiguHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they overtook
  • then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

    Jeremiah 42:16

    • תַּשִּׂ֥יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will overtake
  • but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

    Jeremiah 52:8

    • וַיַּשִּׂ֥יגוּvaiyasiguHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they overtook

Lamentations

one use
  • Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

    Lamentations 1:3

    • הִשִּׂיג֖וּהָhisiguhaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: they have overtaken her

Ezekiel

one use
  • He is to provide a grain offering of an ephah with the bull, an ephah with the ram, and as much as he is able with the lambs, along with a hin of oil per ephah.

    Ezekiel 46:7

    • תַּשִּׂ֖יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will reach

Hosea

two uses
  • She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’

    Hosea 2:7

    • תַשִּׂ֣יגtasigverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will overtake
  • Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?

    Hosea 10:9

    • תַשִּׂיגֵ֧םtasigemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: will it overtake? them

Zechariah

one use
  • But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

    Zechariah 1:6

    • הִשִּׂ֖יגוּhisiguverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: did they overtake

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

Revised 2026-09-05. Every cited work, the sources registry →