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Ruth 1:4
“And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
נָשָׂאnâsâʼ · naw-saw'
H5375 · Hebrew
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
- יִּשְׂא֣וּ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- 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.