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# נָשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5382

**forget** — used 7 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

forget [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5382/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשָׁה²: vb. forget [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5382/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. forget (NH id.; Assyrian nišîtu perhaps forgottenness DlHWB 486; Aramaic נְשָׁא (especially Ithpe., Aph.), ܢܫܳܐ forget; Arabic نَسِىَ forget, neglect; cf. Ethiopic ናሕሰየ ignoscere, condonare, indulgere Di 633);— Pf. 1 s. וְנָשִׁיתִי אֶתְכֶם נָשֹׁא Je 23:39 I will forget you finally (but 𝔊 𝔙 𝔖 Che Gie וְנָשָׂאתִי, sq. וְנָטַשְׁתִּי as v 33 b, v. iii. מַשָּׂא); נָשִׁיתִי טוֹבָה La 3:17 I have forgotten prosperity; Impf. 1 s. הַאֶשֶּׁה shall I forget? i.e. overlook, read by We Mi 6:10 plausibly for MT הַאִשׁ; Inf. abs. נָשֹׁא (ל׳ א) Je 23:39 (v. supr.). Impf. 2 ms. sf. תִּנָּשֵׁנִי Is 44:21 thou shalt not be forgotten of me, bu dub.; Ges§ 117 x תִּנְשֵׁנִי (Qal); CheHpt. תִּטְּשֵׁנִי (cf. Dt 32:15). Pf. 3 ms. sf. נַשַּׁ֫נִי Gn 41:51 (E) God hath made me forget + acc. rei (—ַin 1st syllable only here, infl. of מְנַשֶּׁה Ges§ 52 m). Pf. 3 ms. sf. הִשָּׁהּ חָכְמָה Jb 39:17 God caused her (the ostrich) to forget wisdom, i.e. did not endow her with it. Impf. יַשֶּׁה לְךָ מִן־ Jb 11:6 Eloah allows a part of thy guilt to be forgotten thee, i.e. does not reckon it to thee in full (𝔊 = יִשְׁוֶה לְךָ מֵאֱלוֹהַּ כַּעֲוֹנֶ֑ךָ \[Du\] there is equivalent to thee from Eloah, according to thine iniquity, cf. Bi Che Job and Sol.; Bu reads נָשָׁה for יַשֶּׁה; Du rejects ver. as gloss).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (2); I have forgotten (1); I will forget (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.17/#tree)

וַתִּזְנַ֧ח מִשָּׁל֛וֹם נַפְשִׁ֖י נָשִׁ֥יתִי טוֹבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.excluded from peace self my I.have.forgotten good

*JPS 1917:* And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity.

[Job 39:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.17/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִשָּׁ֣הּ אֱל֣וֹהַּ חָכְמָ֑ה וְלֹא־חָ֥לַק לָ֝הּ֗ בַּבִּינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he has.made.it.forget God wisdom and not he.gave.a.share to it in (the) understanding

*JPS 1917:* Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5382.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5382/): 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).