nasha · forget

What it means

nasha (נָשָׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “forget”.

Make someone forget.

How to say it

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 let something fade from the mind, or to make another stop remembering it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• forget ×4
• I have forgotten ×1
• be forgotten ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Job×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1

• Genesis 41:51

  Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For Elohim has made me forget all my toil and all the house of my father.”

• Job 11:6

  and tell you the secrets of wisdom, for sound judgment is double; and know that Eloah makes you forget part of your iniquity.

• Job 39:17

  for Eloah has made her forget wisdom, and has not given her a share in understanding.

• Isaiah 44:21

  “Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you; you are a servant to me, Israel; you will not be forgotten by me.

• Jeremiah 23:39

  therefore, look, I will utterly forget you, and I will abandon you, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, casting you out of my presence.

• Lamentations 3:17

  And you have removed from peace my soul; I have forgotten what is good.