naza · sprinkle

What it means

naza (נָזָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sprinkle”.

Spatter (of blood, oil or water).

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 scatter drops of blood, oil or water; in Isaiah 52:15 perhaps "startle".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sprinkle ×17
• spattered ×3
• He sprinkled ×1
• one who sprinkles ×1
• spatters ×1
• sprinkled it ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×15
• Numbers×5
• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×2

• Exodus 29:21

  You shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the oil of anointing and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on the garments of his sons with him; and he shall be holy, and his garments, and his sons and the garments of his sons with him.

• Leviticus 4:6

  The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before YHWH, in front of the veil of the Holy Place.

• Leviticus 4:17

  The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before YHWH, in front of the veil.

• Leviticus 5:9

  He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 6:27

  Whatever touches its flesh will become holy; and when some of its blood spatters on a garment, the part on which it spattered you shall wash in a holy place.

• Leviticus 8:11

  He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.

• Leviticus 8:30

  Moses took some of the oil of anointing and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him; so he consecrated Aaron, his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

• Leviticus 14:7

  He shall sprinkle on the one being purified from the leprosy seven times, and declare him clean, and let go the living bird over the face of the field.

• Leviticus 14:16

  The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before YHWH.

• Leviticus 14:27

  and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before YHWH.

• Leviticus 14:51

  He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the living water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

• Leviticus 16:14

  And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the cover of expiation on the east side, and in front of the cover of expiation he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

• Leviticus 16:15

  Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the cover of expiation and in front of the cover of expiation.

• Leviticus 16:19

  And he shall sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times and cleanse it and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel.

• Numbers 8:7

  And thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: sprinkle on them the water of purification, and they shall pass a razor over their whole body, and wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

• Numbers 19:4

  And Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.

• Numbers 19:18

  And a clean man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the vessels and on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the slain or the dead or the grave.

• Numbers 19:19

  And the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and he shall purify him on the seventh day; and he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he shall be clean in the evening.

• Numbers 19:21

  And it shall be for them a statute forever. And the one who sprinkles the water of impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of impurity shall be unclean until the evening.

• 2 Kings 9:33

  He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her.

• Isaiah 52:15

  so he will sprinkle many nations; before him kings will shut their mouths; for what had not been told them they will see, and what they had not heard they will understand.

• Isaiah 63:3

  “The winepress I have trodden alone, and from the peoples there was no man with me; and I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their juice spattered on my garments, and all my clothing I have stained.

And 2 more times.