nashak · kiss

What it means

nashak (נָשַׁק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “kiss”.

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 kiss someone on the mouth or cheek, to greet, to say farewell or to show affection.
2. To brush one thing against another, side by side.
3. To be equipped with weapons, above all a bow, for fighting.
4. To do what someone commands, like one who submits to his authority.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• kissed ×19
• kiss ×9
• Armed ×3
• kisses ×2
• touching ×1
• will obey ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Exodus×2
• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×2
• Song of Songs×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 27:26

  Then Isaac his father said to him, “Come near, please, and kiss me, my son.”

• Genesis 27:27

  So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that YHWH has blessed.

• Genesis 29:11

  Jacob kissed Rachel, and he lifted up his voice and wept.

• Genesis 29:13

  When Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

• Genesis 31:28

  You did not even let me kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have acted foolishly.

• Genesis 31:55

  Laban rose early in the morning, kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban went and returned to his place.

• Genesis 33:4

  But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.

• Genesis 41:40

  You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your command; only in the throne will I be greater than you.”

• Genesis 45:15

  He kissed all his brothers and wept over them; and after that his brothers talked with him.

• Genesis 48:10

  Now the eyes of Israel were heavy from old age; he could not see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

• Genesis 50:1

  Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.

• Exodus 4:27

  YHWH said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of Elohim and kissed him.

• Exodus 18:7

  Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him; they asked each other about their welfare, and they went into the tent.

• Ruth 1:9

  May YHWH grant you that you find rest, each in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice and wept.

• Ruth 1:14

  They lifted up their voice and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

• 1 Samuel 10:1

  And Samuel took the flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, “Is it not that YHWH has anointed you as leader over his inheritance?

• 1 Samuel 20:41

  The boy went, and David rose from beside the south, and fell on his face to the ground and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David wept more.

• 2 Samuel 14:33

  Joab came to the king and told him, and he called for Absalom. He came to the king and bowed down to him on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 15:5

  And whenever a man came near to bow down to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.

• 2 Samuel 19:39

  All the people crossed the Jordan, and the king crossed over; and the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his place.

• 2 Samuel 20:9

  Joab said to Amasa, “Are you well, my brother?” And Joab’s right hand took hold of Amasa’s beard to kiss him.

• 1 Kings 19:18

  Yet I will leave in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

• 1 Kings 19:20

  He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Let me kiss, please, my father and my mother, and I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go, go back, for what have I done to you?”

• 1 Chronicles 12:2

  Armed with the bow, using the right hand and the left with stones and with arrows from the bow, they were of the brothers of Saul, from Benjamin.

• 2 Chronicles 17:17

  And from Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him those armed with bow and shield, two hundred thousand;

• Job 31:27

  and my heart was enticed in secret, and my hand has kissed at my mouth,

• Psalms 2:12

  Kiss the son, lest he be angry and you perish in the way, for soon his anger will flare up. Happy are all who take refuge in him.

• Psalms 78:9

  The sons of Ephraim, armed shooters of the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

• Psalms 85:10

  Loyal love and faithfulness have met; righteousness and peace have kissed.

• Proverbs 7:13

  And she seizes him and kisses him; she makes bold her face and says to him:

• Proverbs 24:26

  He kisses the lips, whoever gives straightforward words.

• Song of Songs 1:2

  Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for better is your love than wine.

• Song of Songs 8:1

  If only you were like a brother to me, who nursed at the breasts of my mother! I would find you outside, I would kiss you, and yet no one would despise me.

• Ezekiel 3:13

  and the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, and the sound of a great quaking.

• Hosea 13:2

  And now they keep sinning, and they have made for themselves a cast image from their silver, idols according to their understanding, the work of craftsmen, all of it; to them they say, “Those who sacrifice human beings, let them kiss calves.”