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title: נָסַח — pull away · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָסַח (5255), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: pull away. BDB 1906: vb. pull or tear away. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָסַח

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«נָסַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pull away** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 5255 · **BDB:** נָסַח

### Glosses

he (1); he.tears.down (1); people.will.tear.away (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pull away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5255/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. pull or tear away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5255/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pull or tear away (NH נָסַח, 𝔗 נְסַח both remove; Assyrian nasâḫu = BH, so Old Aramaic נסח Cook82 Lzb323; Arabic نَسَخَ annul, supersede, change by substitution, copy; cf. Assyrian nisḫu, nusḫu, extract, excerpt DlHWB 472 MeissnZA iv (1889), 267; NH נָסְחָה, Nab. נסחת id., also Aramaic נוסחא (whence Arabic نُسْخَةٌ) HoffmZMG xxxii. 760 cf. Frä251; Syriac ܢܣܰܚ copy);— Impf. 3 ms. בֵּית גֵּאִים יִסַּח י׳ Pr 15:25 the house of proud men will י׳ tear down; וְיִסָּֽחֲךָ מֵאֹהֶל ψ 52:7 yea, he \[י׳\] shall tear thee away, without a tent; 3 mpl. יִסְּחוּ מִן Pr 2:22 transgressors shall (men) tear away from the land (read perhaps יִנָּֽסְחוּ shall be torn away; ‖ יִכָּרֵ֑תוּ; cf. Ges§ 144, 3 b.R DaSynt. § 108. b). Pf. 2 mpl. consec. וְנִסַּחְתֶּם מֵעַל הָאֲדָמָה Dt 28:63 and ye shall be torn away from off the land.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָסַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5255/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 15:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.25/)

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בֵּ֣ית גֵּ֭אִים יִסַּ֥ח ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝יַצֵּ֗ב גְּב֣וּל אַלְמָנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].house of.proud.\[people\] he.tears.down Yahweh and he.will.establish \[the\].territory of.a.widow

*JPS 1917:* The LORD will pluck up the house of the proud; but He will establish the border of the widow.

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[Proverbs 2:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.22/)

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וּ֭רְשָׁעִים מֵאֶ֣רֶץ יִכָּרֵ֑תוּ וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗ים יִסְּח֥וּ מִמֶּֽנָּה׃פ

*Word for word:* and wicked.\[people\] from.\[the\] land they.will.be.cut.off and \[those.who\].act.treacherously people.will.tear.away from it

*JPS 1917:* But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.

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