נָצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5327

struggle — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

struggle tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָצָה: vb. Niph. Hiph. struggle tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. Niph. Hiph. struggle (NH id., Hithp. (Jastrow928); Aramaic נְצָא, ܢܨܳܐ quarrel; Arabic نَصَا apprehendit, arripuit aliquem antiis suis, Ethiopic ነጸየ vellere, evellere, are perhaps denom. from نَاصِيَةٌ (v. נוֹצָה), so Thes);— recipr. struggle with each other: Impf. 3 mpl. יִנָּצוּ Ex 21:22 (E), Lv 24:10 (H), 2 S 14:6; יִנּ׳ יַחְדָּו Dt 25:11; Pt. נִצִּים Ex 2:13 (E); all of physical struggle, wrestling, and the like. engage in a struggle against: Pf. 3 pl. הִצּוּ Nu 26:9 (עַל); Inf. cstr. sf. הַצֹּתָם v 9 (עַל); הַצּוֹתוֹ אֶת ψ 60:2 (title); only here of war, hence Klo’s suggestion (cf. Buhl 13) הַכּוֹתוֹ is plausible (cf. 2 S 8:3, 5, 9).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: struggled (2); they struggled together (2); [were] struggling together (1).

In the verses

Exodus 2:13 · tree →

וַיֵּצֵא֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשֵּׁנִ֔י וְהִנֵּ֛ה שְׁנֵֽי־אֲנָשִׁ֥ים עִבְרִ֖ים נִצִּ֑ים וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לָֽרָשָׁ֔ע לָ֥מָּה תַכֶּ֖ה רֵעֶֽךָ׃

Word for word: and he.went.out on the day (the) second and there! two men Hebrew [were].struggling.together and he.said to the.guilty [one] why? are.you.striking companion your

JPS 1917: And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?'

Leviticus 24:10 · tree →

וַיֵּצֵא֙ בֶּן־אִשָּׁ֣ה יִשְׂרְאֵלִ֔ית וְהוּא֙ בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ מִצְרִ֔י בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּנָּצוּ֙ בַּֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה בֶּ֚ן הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִ֔ית וְאִ֖ישׁ הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִֽי׃

Word for word: and he.went.out a.son of.a.woman Israelite and he [was].a.son of.a.man Egyptian among the.people of.Israel and they.struggled.together in the camp the.son of the.Israelite.[woman] and the.man of the.Israelite[s]

JPS 1917: And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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