נָשַׂג
na.sag
“to overtake”
Definition
to reach (literally or figuratively)
a primitive root;
- to reach, overtake, take hold upon 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to overtake 1a2) to reach, attain to, cause to reach 1a3) to be able to secure, reach, have enough
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Occurrences
נָשַׂג appears 41 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel,and there you have remained.Did not the battle in Gibeahovertake the sons of iniquity?
Terrors overtake him like a flood;a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,
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