נָסַס nâçaç — to gleam from afar, i.e. to be conspicuous as a signal
Translated in the KJV as lift up as an ensign.
a primitive root; to gleam from afar, i.e. to be conspicuous as a signal; or rather perhaps a denominative from H5251 (and identical with H5263, through the idea of a flag as fluttering in the wind); to raise a beacon.
nâçaç in each stem
Hitpolel
Participle (active) 1
And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›