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# נָסַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5264

**be sick** — used 2 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

be sick [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5264/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָסַס: vb. be sick [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5264/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be sick (?; cf. Syriac ܢܰܣ id., and especially ܢܰܣܺܝܣ debilis, infirmus, aegrotans, etc., PS2387; 𝔗 נְסַס be sad; Assyrian nasâsu, wail, lament DlHWB 427; Arabic نَسَّ is go at a gentle pace);—only Pt. act. (si vera l.) כִּמְסֹס נֹסֵס Is 10:18 like the wasting away of a sick man (so Thes Ew De Che Di Du).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[will\] display themselves (1); be displayed (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 60:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.60.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.60.6/#tree)

נָ֘תַ֤תָּה לִּירֵאֶ֣יךָ נֵּ֭ס לְהִתְנוֹסֵ֑ס מִ֝פְּנֵ֗י קֹ֣שֶׁט סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* you.have.set.up for.\[those\] fearing you a.standard to be.displayed because of \[the\].bow Selah

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast given a banner to them that fear Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.

[Zechariah 9:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.16/#tree)

וְֽהוֹשִׁיעָ֞ם יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֛ם בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא כְּצֹ֣אן עַמּ֑וֹ כִּ֚י אַבְנֵי־נֵ֔זֶר מִֽתְנוֹסְס֖וֹת עַל־אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he will.deliver.them Yahweh God their on the day (the) that like the.flock his.people his (dm) stones of.a.crown \[will\].display.themselves on land his

*JPS 1917:* 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, glittering over His land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5264.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5264/): 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).