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Numbers 23:7
“And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.” (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
- יִּשָּׂ֥א — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 654 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:13Genesis 7:17Genesis 13:6Genesis 13:10Genesis 13:14
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.