nashal · take off; drop off

What it means

nashal (נָשַׁל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “take off; drop off”.

Take off (sandals); loosen, drop off.

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. Something coming loose: a sandal, an axe-head, a falling olive.
2. To drive peoples from their land.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Take ×2
• clears away ×1
• drove out ×1
• slips off ×1
• will clear away ×1
• will drop off ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×1
• 2 Kings×1

• Exodus 3:5

  He said, “Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

• Deuteronomy 7:1

  When YHWH your Elohim brings you into the land into which you are going to take possession of it, and clears away many nations from before you —the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—

• Deuteronomy 7:22

  YHWH your Elohim will clear away these nations from before you little by little; you will not be able to finish them off quickly, lest the animals of the field multiply against you.

• Deuteronomy 19:5

  as when someone goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off from the wood and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he may flee to one of these cities and live,

• Deuteronomy 28:40

  You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but with oil you will not anoint yourself, for your olives will drop off.

• Joshua 5:15

  The chief of the army of YHWH said to Joshua, “Take off your sandal from your foot, for the place on which you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

• 2 Kings 16:6

  At that time Rezin king of Aram brought back Elath to Aram and drove out the Jews from Elath; and the Edomites came to Elath and have lived there to this day.