Original Language Studio
Genesis 13:10
“And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּשָּׂא — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 654 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:13Genesis 7:17Genesis 13:6Genesis 13:14Genesis 18:2
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָשָׂא here.
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.