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title: נָסַס — be sick · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָסַס (5264), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: be sick. BDB 1906: vb. be sick. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָסַס

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«נָסַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be sick** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 5264 · **BDB:** נָסַס

### Glosses

\[will\].display.themselves (1); be.displayed (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be sick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5264/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be sick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5264/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be sick (?; cf. Syriac ܢܰܣ id., and especially ܢܰܣܺܝܣ debilis, infirmus, aegrotans, etc., PS2387; 𝔗 נְסַס be sad; Assyrian nasâsu, wail, lament DlHWB 427; Arabic نَسَّ is go at a gentle pace);—only Pt. act. (si vera l.) כִּמְסֹס נֹסֵס Is 10:18 like the wasting away of a sick man (so Thes Ew De Che Di Du).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָסַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5264/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 60:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.60.6/)

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נָ֘תַ֤תָּה לִּירֵאֶ֣יךָ נֵּ֭ס לְהִתְנוֹסֵ֑ס מִ֝פְּנֵ֗י קֹ֣שֶׁט סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* you.have.set.up for.\[those\] fearing you a.standard to be.displayed because of \[the\].bow Selah

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast given a banner to them that fear Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.

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[Zechariah 9:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.16/)

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וְֽהוֹשִׁיעָ֞ם יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֛ם בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא כְּצֹ֣אן עַמּ֑וֹ כִּ֚י אַבְנֵי־נֵ֔זֶר מִֽתְנוֹסְס֖וֹת עַל־אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he will.deliver.them Yahweh God their on the day (the) that like the.flock his.people his (dm) stones of.a.crown \[will\].display.themselves on land his

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of His people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, glittering over His land.

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