נָצַל
natsal · rescue, deliver
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5337 · appears 213 times in the Bible
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natsal (נָצַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rescue, deliver”.
Snatch away, take away; very often, deliver or rescue from danger. In another form, strip oneself of something.
How to say it
na·tsal
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 take someone out of danger or out of his enemy's hands.
- To take something from the one who has it, to recover it or give it to another.
- To strip another of his goods, taking what he has.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Snatch away, pull out; almost always, to deliver someone from a danger or from an enemy's hand. BDB: to snatch away, in a good or a bad sense.
- To deliver from another's hand Genesis 37:21Exodus 3:8
- “Delivered me from the hand of the lion” 1 Samuel 17:37
- A plea: “Deliver me” Psalms 59:1Psalms 142:6
- “None to deliver” Psalms 50:22Psalms 7:2
- To plunder; to strip oneself Exodus 3:22Exodus 33:6
How we translate it
“Deliver” 101 times, “delivered” 54, “rescue” 22, “rescued” 8. The passive is translated “be delivered”. In another verbal form it means taking something away from someone: “you shall plunder the Egyptians”, “stripped themselves of their ornaments”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- deliver ×101
- delivered ×54
- rescue ×22
- rescued ×8
- delivers ×7
- deliverer ×2
- free yourself ×2
- has taken away ×2
- rescues ×2
- snatch ×2
- others ×11
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×6
- Exodus×14
- Numbers×1
- Deuteronomy×4
- Joshua×4
- Judges×6
- 1 Samuel×17
- 2 Samuel×9
- 2 Kings×13
- 1 Chronicles×2
- 2 Chronicles×10
- Ezra×1
- Nehemiah×1
- Job×3
- Psalms×45
- Proverbs×12
- Isaiah×22
- Jeremiah×10
- Ezekiel×17
- Daniel×2
- Hosea×3
- Amos×3
- Jonah×1
- Micah×3
- Habakkuk×1
- Zephaniah×1
- Zechariah×2
- Genesis 31:9
So Elohim has taken away the livestock of your father and given it to me.
- Genesis 31:16
Indeed, all the wealth that Elohim has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now, whatever Elohim has told you, do.”
- Genesis 32:11
Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, the mothers with the children.
- Genesis 32:30
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, “For I have seen Elohim face to face, and my life has been delivered.”
- Genesis 37:21
But Reuben heard it and delivered him from their hands, and said, “Let us not take his life.”
- Genesis 37:22
Reuben said to them, “Do not shed blood; throw him into this cistern that is in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him,” so that he might deliver him from their hands to bring him back to his father.
- Exodus 2:19
They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
- Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egypt and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 3:22
Each woman shall ask of her neighbor and of the woman who resides in her house articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; and so you shall plunder the Egyptians.”
- Exodus 5:23
Since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.”
- Exodus 6:6
Therefore say to the sons of Israel, ‘I am YHWH, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
- Exodus 12:27
you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Passover to YHWH, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when he struck Egypt and delivered our houses.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and bowed down.
- Exodus 12:36
And YHWH gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they gave them what they asked. So they plundered the Egyptians.
- Exodus 18:4
and the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “The Elohim of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
- Exodus 18:8
Moses told his father-in-law all that YHWH had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how YHWH had delivered them.
- Exodus 18:9
Jethro rejoiced over all the good that YHWH had done for Israel, in that he had delivered them from the hand of the Egyptians.
- Exodus 18:10
Jethro said, “Blessed be YHWH, who delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, who delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
- Exodus 33:6
So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb on.
- Numbers 35:25
And the community shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community shall return him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall dwell in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
- Deuteronomy 23:14
For YHWH your Elohim walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to give your enemies before you; so your camp shall be holy, so that he may not see among you the nakedness of anything and turn away from you.
- Deuteronomy 23:15
You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped to you from his master.
- 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,
- Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, I am he, and there is no god with me. I put to death and I make alive; I have crushed and I will heal, and there is no one who delivers from my hand.
- Joshua 2:13
that you will keep alive my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.”
- Joshua 9:26
He did thus to them: he delivered them from the hand of the sons of Israel, and they did not kill them.
- Joshua 22:31
And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the sons of Reuben, to the sons of Gad, and to the sons of Manasseh, “Today we know that YHWH is in our midst, because you have not committed this unfaithfulness against YHWH. Now you have delivered the sons of Israel from the hand of YHWH.”
- Joshua 24:10
But I was not willing to listen to Balaam; and he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.
- Judges 6:9
I delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all who oppressed you; I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
- Judges 8:34
The sons of Israel did not remember YHWH their Elohim, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies all around;
- Judges 9:17
for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian,
- Judges 10:15
The sons of Israel said to YHWH, “We have sinned. Do you to us according to all that is good in your eyes; only deliver us, please, this day.”
- Judges 11:26
While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are along the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them at that time?
- Judges 18:28
And there was no deliverer, for it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. And they built the city and lived in it.
- 1 Samuel 4:8
Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck Egypt with every kind of blow in the wilderness.
- 1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If with all your heart you are returning to YHWH, put away the foreign gods from among you, and the Astartes, and prepare your heart for YHWH and serve him alone, and he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
- 1 Samuel 7:14
And the cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel returned to Israel, from Ekron to Gath; and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorite.
- 1 Samuel 10:18
And he said to the sons of Israel, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘I brought up Israel from Egypt and delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’
- 1 Samuel 12:10
They cried out to YHWH and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken YHWH and have served the Baals and the Astartes. And now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’
- 1 Samuel 12:11
YHWH sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of your enemies all around, and you lived in security.
- 1 Samuel 12:21
And do not turn aside, for that would be going after emptiness that does not profit or deliver, for they are emptiness.
And 173 more times.