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H5253 נָסַג (nâçag) naw-sag'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to retreat

KJV Usage: departing away, remove, take (hold), turn away

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

נָסַג (na.sag) — to remove. 1) to move away, backslide, move, go, turn back 1a) (Qal) to backslide, prove recreant to 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to displace, move back 1b2) to remove, carry away 1d) (Hophal) to be driven back, be moved back

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · סִיג

Move | verb nif

Collocation: סוג אָחֹור

to step back, to retreat = action by which humans take one or more steps backwards, ◄ usually because of a dangerous situation in front of them and against their will; ► resulting in shame

2SA 1:22 · PSA 35:4 · PSA 40:15 · PSA 70:3 · PSA 129:5 · ISA 42:17 · ISA 50:5 · JER 38:22 · JER 46:5

Move | verb hof

Collocation: סוג אָחֹור

to cause to step back, to cause to retreat = causative action by which humans are forced to take one or more steps backwards, ◄ usually because of a dangerous situation in front of them and against their will; ► resulting in shame; ≈ only used in a figurative sense relating to failing justice

ISA 59:14

Space | verb hif

Collocation: סוג גְּבוּל

to move boundaries literally: to cause a boundary to step back; = action by which humans move the signs marking the boundary of their land in order to enlarge their territory

DEU 19:14 · DEU 27:17 · JOB 24:2 · PRO 22:28 · PRO 23:10 · HOS 5:10

Unfaithful | verb nif, verb qal

to slide back, to go astray literally: to step back; hence: = process by which humans gradually lose their loyalty towards a deity

PSA 44:19 · PSA 53:4 · PSA 78:57 · PSA 80:19 · PRO 14:14 · ISA 59:13 · ZEP 1:6

verb

Arrange | verb qal

to be encircled = state in which an object is surrounded with a carefully arranged set of other objects in the shape of a circle

SNG 7:3

1 MIC 2:6 MT | RSV NIV NJPS NJB NRSV ESV "overtake" = נשׂג 2 MIC 6:14 MT סוג RSV NRSV ESV "put away" NIV NJB CEV "store up" GNT "carry things off" | REB "come to labour" = נשׂג

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[סוּג, seldom שׂוּג] vb. move away, backslide Qal backslide, prove recreant to י׳

Niph. refl. turn oneself away, turn back

be turned or driven back, be repulsed

Hiph. usu. of displacing, moving back a boundary mark

remove, carry away

Hoph. and justice is driven back

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