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# נָשָׁא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5377

**beguile** — used 14 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

beguile [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5377/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשָׁא²: vb. Niph.Hiph. beguile, deceive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5377/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Niph.Hiph. beguile, deceive;—(kindred with I. שׁוא, from which, however, the forms can hardly be derived (conj. WeComp 2. 351));— Pf. 3 pl. נִשְּׁאוּ Is 19:13 the princes have been beguiled (‖ נוֹאֲלוּ, הִתְעוּ). Pf. הִשִּׁיא Je 49:16, sf. הִשִּׁאַ֫נִי Gn 3:13, הִשִּׁיאֶ֑ךָ Ob 3; 2 ms. הִשֵּׁאתָ Je 4:10; 3 pl. sf. הִשִּׁיא֫וּךָ Ob 7; Impf. only juss. יַשִּׁיא 2 Ch 32:15, so ψ 55:16 Qr (v. infr.); יַשִּׁ(י)א 2 K 18:29 Is 36:14, sf. יַשִּׁאֲךָ 2 K 19:10 Is 37:10; 2 mpl. תַּשִּׁאוּ Je 37:9; Inf. abs. הַשֵּׁא Je 4:10;—beguile, usually c. acc. pers. Gn 3:13 (J; not elsewhere Hex); Je 49:16 Ob 3, 7; אַל־יַשִּׁאֲךָ 2 K 19:10 let not thy God beguile thee = Is 37:10, of Hezekiah 2 Ch 32:15 (cf. infr.), אַל־תַּשִּׁאוּ נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם Je 37:9 do not deceive yourselves; also sq. ל pers. אַל־יַשִּׁא לָכֶם 2 K 18:29 = Is 36:14 (= 2 Ch 32:15, v. supr.), Je 29:8; הַשֵּׁא הִשֵּׁאתָ לָעָם הַזֶּה 4:10 thou hast utterly beguiled this people; ישׁימות עָלֵימוֹ ψ 55:16 Kt appar. = desolations (be) upon them! (but elsewhere only in n.pr.loc., cf. p. 445 supr.), יַשִּׁיא מָוֶת עלימו Ew Ol Pe De Now Hup, cf. 𝔊, let death (beguile them, i.e.) come deceitfully upon them! Brüll Che, cf. Bae, conj. plausibly יַשִּׁיא מָוֶת יִבְלָעֵמוֹ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: let him deceive (3); it (2); let (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 19:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.13/#tree)

נֽוֹאֲלוּ֙ שָׂ֣רֵי צֹ֔עַן נִשְּׁא֖וּ שָׂ֣רֵי נֹ֑ף הִתְע֥וּ אֶת־מִצְרַ֖יִם פִּנַּ֥ת שְׁבָטֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* they.have.become.fools the.officials of.Zoan they.have.been.deceived the.officials of.Memphis they.have.misled (et) Egypt the.corner its.tribes her

*JPS 1917:* The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.

[Isaiah 36:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.14/#tree)

כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אַל־יַשִּׁ֥א לָכֶ֖ם חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ כִּ֥י לֹֽא־יוּכַ֖ל לְהַצִּ֥יל אֶתְכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says the king not let.him.deceive (to) you Hezekiah (dm) not he.will.be.able to deliver you

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the king: Let not Hezekiah beguile you, for he will not be able to deliver you;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5377.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5377/): 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).