STRONGS NUMBER H5265


Word Summary
nasa: to pull out or up, set out, journey
Original Word: נָסַע
Transliteration: nasa
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-sah')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to pull out or up, set out, journey
Meaning: to pull up, the tent-pins, start on a, journey
Strong's Concordance
cause to blow, bring, get, make to go away, forth, forward, onward, out,

A primitive root; properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. Start on a journey -- cause to blow, bring, get, (make to) go (away, forth, forward, onward, out), (take) journey, march, remove, set aside (forward), X still, be on his (go their) way.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5265. nasa

I. נָסַע147 verb pull out or up, set out, journey (Late Hebrew id., move, march; Assyrian nisû, set out, withdraw, etc. DlHWB 470; NöZMG x1(1886), 723 compare also Arabic , Ethiopic [rare] pull up, away, so BaES 51); —

Qal137 Perfect3masculine singular ׳נGenesis 33:17 +, 3 masculine plural נָָֽסְעוּDeuteronomy 10:6, נָסָ֑עוּNumbers 2:34 +, etc.; Imperfect יִסַּעIsaiah 33:20, וַיִּסַּעGenesis 12:9 +, suffix וַיִּסָּעֵםJudges 16:3; 3masculine plural יִסְעוּExodus 40:36 +, יִסָּ֑עוּNumbers 2:9 +; 2 masculine plural תִּסְעוּJoshua 3:3; 1plural נִסְעָה‎ cohortative Genesis 33:12, וַנִּסַּעDeuteronomy 1:19; 2:1, וַנִּסְעָהEzra 8:31, etc.; Imperative סְעוּDeuteronomy 2:24 +; Infinitive absolute Genesis 12:9; construct נְסֹעַJoshua 3:14 +; suffix נָסְעָםGenesis 11:2; Numbers 10:34; Participle נֹסֵעַExodus 14:10; Numbers 10:33; plural נֹסְעִים10:29; —

1 pull out or up, city-gate and gate-posts Judges 16:3; loom 16:14 (on text compare GFM), tent-pegs Isaiah 33:20 (figurative of Jerusalem; compare also Niph`al).

2 hence (from pulling up tent-pegs),

a. set out Genesis 35:5; Numbers 12:15 (both E), Jeremiah 4:7 ("" מִמְּקוֺמוֺ יָצָא‎); even of lifeless things, e.g. the ark, הָאָרוֺןNumbers 10:35 (JE); often in P: Exodus 14:15; 40:37; Numbers 1:51; 4:5, 15; 9:17 8t. Numbers 9; 10:5-6, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25, so probably also 2:8 6t. Numbers 2 (see below; even of lifeless things, דֶּגֶל10:18, 12, מִשְׁכָּן1:51, מוֺעֵד אֹהֶל2:17), 33:3; וַיִּסַּעוַ֗֗֗יָּבֹאGenesis 46:1 (E) and Israel set out, and came, etc., Exodus 16:1; 19:2; Numbers 20:22; Joshua 9:17 (all P), Deuteronomy 1:7, וְנֵלֵ֑כָה נִסְעָה33:12 (J); (וַ֗֗֗יַּעֲלוּ‎) וַיִּסְעוּJudges 18:11, וְעִבְרוּ סְעוּDeuteronomy 2:24; ׳נ‎ often with מִןGenesis 35:16 (E), Numbers 10:34 (JE), ׳נ לַעֲבֹר מֵאָהֳלֵיהֶםJoshua 3:14 (JE), set out from their tents, to cross, etc.; compare מִןלָ֗֗֗לֶכֶת ׳נEzra 8:31; with מִן‎ + ויבא‎, Joshua 3:1 (JE), Numbers 33:9 (P), + וַיֵּלֶךְ33:3 (D), Deuteronomy 1:19, + וַיַּעַבְרוּNumbers 33:8 (P); + וַיָּשָׁב‎ + וַיַּחֲנוּ33:7 (P).

b. depart, with מִןGenesis 37:17 (J), 2 Kings 3:27; 19:8, 36 = Isaiah 37:8, 37; even of הֶעָנָן עַמּוּדExodus 14:19 (J); of angel 14:19 (E; + וַיֵּלֶךְ‎).

3 journey, march (by stages) Genesis 12:9; 35:21 (both J), Numbers 10:13-14, 28 (P), (possibly also 2:9 etc., compare

2 above); + לְמַסְעֵיהֶםaccording to their stations, i.e. by stages Exodus 17:1; Numbers 10:12 (+ מִן‎), compare Exodus 40:36 (all P); followed by ה‎ locative Genesis 12:9; 33:17 (both J), Deuteronomy 1:40; 2:1; הַמִּדְבָּר לָכֶם סְעוּNumbers 14:25 (JE); followed by מִקֶּדֶםeastward (see מִן1. c) Genesis 11:2; 13:11 (both J), אַחֲרֵיExodus 14:10 (J), אֶלֿNumbers 10:29, לִפְנֵי10:33 (of ark; all J); followed by מִן‎ + ה‎ locative Genesis 20:1 (E), Deuteronomy 10:6-7, Exodus 12:37 (P), + accusative of location Numbers 11:35 (JE); followed by מִן‎ + accusative of distance, דֶּרֶךְ10:33 (JE), 21:4 (P); especially מִןוַ֗֗֗יַּחֲנוּ וַיִּסְעוּ21:12-13, (JE), Exodus 13:20; Numbers 21:11; 33:5 37t. Numbers 33 (all P); of shepherds Jeremiah 31:24. — צאֹן כְמוֺ נָָֽסְעוּZechariah 10:2 is dubious; We נָעוּ‎ or יָנֻעוּ‎, so Now.

4 of wind, ׳נ י מֵאֵת ׳רוּחַNumbers 11:31 there set forth (sprang up) a wind from ׳י‎.

Niph`al Perfect be pulled up, removed:3masculine singular רֹעִי כְּאֹהֶל מִנִּי וְנִגְלָה נִסַּע דּוֺרִיIsaiah 38:12; of tent-peg נִסַּע הֲלֹאJob 4:21 (reading יְתֵדָם‎ for יִתְרָם‎, see II. יֶתֶר‎).

Hiph`il Imperfect3masculine singular יַסַּעPsalm 78:26, וַיַּסַּעExodus 15:22 2t.; 2 masculine singular תַּסִּיעַPsalm 80:9, 3feminine singular תַּסִּיעִי2 Kings 4:4; 3masculine plural וַּיַּסִּ֫עוּ‎ 1 Kings 5:31; ParticipleמַסִּיעַEcclesiastes 10:9; —

1 cause to set out, lead out, with accusative of person Exodus 15:22 (J; + וַיֵּצְאוּ מִן,‎), Psalm 78:52 (כַּצּאֹן‎; "" וַיְנַהֲגֵם‎), 80:9 (מִן‎; figurative of vine); figurative of a wind, cause to spring up, קָדִים יַסַּע78:26 ("" וַיְנַהֵג‎; compare Qal 4).

2 remove, with accusative of thing 2 Kings 4:4; תִּקְוָתִי כָּעֵץ וַיַּסַּעJob 19:10; specifically, remove from quarry, quarry: 1 Kings 5:31 and they quarried great stones, compare Ecclesiastes 10:9.