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נָסַע nâçaʻ — properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on a journey

pronounced naw-sah' · Strong's H5265 · 146 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 3 stems: Qal (Pa'al), Hiph'il, Niph'al

Translated in the KJV as cause to blow, bring, get, go (away, forth, forward, onward, out), journey, march, remove, set aside.

a primitive root; properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on a journey.

nâçaʻ in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 136×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Wayyiqtol 77Imperfect (yiqtol) 16Perfect (qatal) 15Sequential perfect (weqatal) 11Infinitive construct 7Imperative 4Participle (active) 3Infinitive absolute 1Cohortative 1Jussive 1

בְּנָסְעָ֣ם Gen 11:2 Infinitive construct

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. (KJV)

וַיִּסַּ֣ע Gen 12:9 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. (KJV)

וַיִּסַּ֥ע Gen 13:11 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. (KJV)

Hiph'il

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Wayyiqtol 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Participle (active) 1

וַיַּסַּ֨ע Exod 15:22 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. (KJV)

וַיַּסִּעוּ֩ 1Kgs 5:31 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine plural
תַּסִּֽיעִי 2Kgs 4:4 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person feminine singular

And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. (KJV)

Niph'al

Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 2

נִסַּ֣ע Job 4:21 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. (KJV)

נִסַּ֧ע Isa 38:12 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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