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Ezekiel 26:17

“And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

נָשָׂאnâsâʼ · naw-saw'
H5375 · Hebrew
Definition
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Derivation
or נָסָה; (Psalm 4:6 (H7 (אֲבַד))), a primitive root;
KJV 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 ([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.
Grammar
  • וְ — conjunction
  • נָשְׂא֨וּ — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
Code HC/Vqq3cp
Usage
Occurs 654 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:13Genesis 7:17Genesis 13:6Genesis 13:10Genesis 13:14

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.