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נָסַג

nasag · move back

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5253 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

nasag (נָסַג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “move back”.

Turn back: shift a boundary marker backward.

How to say it

na·sag

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To go back; also be driven back.
  2. To shift something from its place, like a neighbour's boundary.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • move ×4
  • depart ×1
  • he who moves ×1
  • turned ×1
  • turning away ×1
  • you will put away ×1

Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 19:14

    You shall not move the boundary of your neighbor, which the first generations have set in your inheritance that you will inherit in the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you to possess it.

  • Deuteronomy 27:17

    ‘Cursed be he who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Proverbs 22:28

    Do not move the ancient boundary that your fathers made.

  • Proverbs 23:10

    Do not move the ancient boundary, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless;

  • Isaiah 59:13

    transgressing and denying YHWH, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking oppression and rebellion, conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Isaiah 59:14

    And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off; for truth has stumbled in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

  • Hosea 5:10

    The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary; upon them I will pour out like water my wrath.

  • Micah 2:6

    “Do not drip words,” they drip words; “one must not drip words about these things; humiliations will not depart.”

  • Micah 6:14

    You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will be within you; and you will put away but not bring to safety, and what you bring to safety I will give to the sword.