נָשַׁךְ
na.shakh
“to bite”
Definition
to strike with a sting (as a serpent); figuratively, to oppress with interest on a loan
a primitive root;
- to bite 1a) (Qal) to bite 1b) (Piel) to bite
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Occurrences
נָשַׁךְ appears 12 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
It will be like a man who flees from a lion,only to encounter a bear,or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall,only to be bitten by a snake.
He who digs a pit may fall into it,and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.
He will be a snake by the road,a viper in the paththat bites the horse’s heelsso that its rider tumbles backward.
“For behold, I will send snakes among you,vipers that cannot be charmed,and they will bite you,”declares the LORD.
So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.