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# נָסַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5255

**pull away** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pull away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5255/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָסַח: vb. pull or tear away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5255/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pull or tear away (NH נָסַח, 𝔗 נְסַח both remove; Assyrian nasâḫu = BH, so Old Aramaic נסח Cook82 Lzb323; Arabic نَسَخَ annul, supersede, change by substitution, copy; cf. Assyrian nisḫu, nusḫu, extract, excerpt DlHWB 472 MeissnZA iv (1889), 267; NH נָסְחָה, Nab. נסחת id., also Aramaic נוסחא (whence Arabic نُسْخَةٌ) HoffmZMG xxxii. 760 cf. Frä251; Syriac ܢܣܰܚ copy);— Impf. 3 ms. בֵּית גֵּאִים יִסַּח י׳ Pr 15:25 the house of proud men will י׳ tear down; וְיִסָּֽחֲךָ מֵאֹהֶל ψ 52:7 yea, he \[י׳\] shall tear thee away, without a tent; 3 mpl. יִסְּחוּ מִן Pr 2:22 transgressors shall (men) tear away from the land (read perhaps יִנָּֽסְחוּ shall be torn away; ‖ יִכָּרֵ֑תוּ; cf. Ges§ 144, 3 b.R DaSynt. § 108. b). Pf. 2 mpl. consec. וְנִסַּחְתֶּם מֵעַל הָאֲדָמָה Dt 28:63 and ye shall be torn away from off the land.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (1); he tears down (1); people will tear away (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.25/#tree)

בֵּ֣ית גֵּ֭אִים יִסַּ֥ח ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝יַצֵּ֗ב גְּב֣וּל אַלְמָנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].house of.proud.\[people\] he.tears.down Yahweh and he.will.establish \[the\].territory of.a.widow

*JPS 1917:* The LORD will pluck up the house of the proud; but He will establish the border of the widow.

[Proverbs 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.22/#tree)

וּ֭רְשָׁעִים מֵאֶ֣רֶץ יִכָּרֵ֑תוּ וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗ים יִסְּח֥וּ מִמֶּֽנָּה׃פ

*Word for word:* and wicked.\[people\] from.\[the\] land they.will.be.cut.off and \[those.who\].act.treacherously people.will.tear.away from it

*JPS 1917:* But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5255.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5255/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).