נָצָה
na.tsah
“to struggle”
Definition
properly, to go forth, i.e. (by implication) to be expelled, and (consequently) desolate; causatively, to lay waste; also (specifically), to quarrel
a primitive root;
- to struggle 1a) (Niphal) to struggle 1b) (Hiphil) to struggle
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Grammar & Morphology
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
נָצָה appears 9 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Have you not heard?Long ago I ordained it;in days of old I planned it.Now I have brought it to pass,that you should crush fortified citiesinto piles of rubble.
And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
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