natsa · fight, quarrel

What it means

natsa (נָצָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fight, quarrel”.

A word written the same way means be laid waste.

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. For two or more people to fight each other.
2. To be reduced to rubble, a destroyed city.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• fought ×3
• contended ×2
• fight ×2
• ruins ×2
• were fighting ×1
• will be laid waste ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Exodus 2:13

  He went out the next day, and look, two Hebrew men were fighting. And he said to the wicked one, “Why are you striking your companion?”

• Exodus 21:22

  When men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her children come out, but there is no harm, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband imposes on him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

• Leviticus 24:10

  And the son of an Israelite woman, who was the son of an Egyptian man, went out among the sons of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel fought in the camp.

• Numbers 26:9

  The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, the ones called from the community, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the community of Korah, when they contended against YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 25:11

  When men fight together, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and seizes him by his private parts,

• 2 Samuel 14:6

  Your servant had two sons, and the two of them fought in the field, and there was no deliverer between them; and the one struck the other and put him to death.

• 2 Kings 19:25

  Have you not heard? From afar I made it, from days of old I formed it; now I have brought it about, and it has been for reducing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

• Psalms 60:1

  For the director. On The Lily of the Testimony. A Miktam of David, for teaching, when he fought against Aram-naharaim and against Aram of Zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, twelve thousand. Elohim, you have rejected us, you have broken through us; you have been angry; restore us.

• Isaiah 37:26

  Have you not heard? From afar I made it, from days of old I formed it; now I have brought it about, and it has been for reducing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

• Jeremiah 4:7

  A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a horror; your cities will be laid waste, without inhabitant.

And 1 more times.