נְשָׂא
nesa · lift up, carry
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H5376 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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nesa (נְשָׂא) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “lift up, carry”.
To lift up, to carry; "to rise up against" someone (Aramaic). Related to the Hebrew "nasa".
How to say it
ne·sa
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
- To lift something and remove it from its place: what the wind carries off or the vessels that are taken.
- To rise against someone, rebel.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- carried them away ×1
- has risen up ×1
- take them ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezra 4:19
And by me an order was given, and they investigated and found that that city since the days of old has risen up against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.
- Ezra 5:15
And he said to him, “These utensils: take them, go, deposit them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of Elah be built on its site.”
- Daniel 2:35
Then were crushed all together the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they became like the chaff of the threshing floors of summer; and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth.