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Numbers 26:2

“Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.” (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: שְׂא֞וּ — verb Qal, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, plural
Code HVqv2mp
Usage: Occurs 654 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:13 Genesis 7:17 Genesis 13:6 Genesis 13:10 Genesis 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.

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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.