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title: נָשָׁה — forget · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָשָׁה (5382), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: forget. BDB 1906: vb. forget. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָשָׁה

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«נָשָׁה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **forget** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 5382 · **BDB:** נָשָׁה²

### Glosses

he (2); I.have.forgotten (1); I.will.forget (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

forget [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5382/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. forget [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5382/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. forget (NH id.; Assyrian nišîtu perhaps forgottenness DlHWB 486; Aramaic נְשָׁא (especially Ithpe., Aph.), ܢܫܳܐ forget; Arabic نَسِىَ forget, neglect; cf. Ethiopic ናሕሰየ ignoscere, condonare, indulgere Di 633);— Pf. 1 s. וְנָשִׁיתִי אֶתְכֶם נָשֹׁא Je 23:39 I will forget you finally (but 𝔊 𝔙 𝔖 Che Gie וְנָשָׂאתִי, sq. וְנָטַשְׁתִּי as v 33 b, v. iii. מַשָּׂא); נָשִׁיתִי טוֹבָה La 3:17 I have forgotten prosperity; Impf. 1 s. הַאֶשֶּׁה shall I forget? i.e. overlook, read by We Mi 6:10 plausibly for MT הַאִשׁ; Inf. abs. נָשֹׁא (ל׳ א) Je 23:39 (v. supr.). Impf. 2 ms. sf. תִּנָּשֵׁנִי Is 44:21 thou shalt not be forgotten of me, bu dub.; Ges§ 117 x תִּנְשֵׁנִי (Qal); CheHpt. תִּטְּשֵׁנִי (cf. Dt 32:15). Pf. 3 ms. sf. נַשַּׁ֫נִי Gn 41:51 (E) God hath made me forget + acc. rei (—ַin 1st syllable only here, infl. of מְנַשֶּׁה Ges§ 52 m). Pf. 3 ms. sf. הִשָּׁהּ חָכְמָה Jb 39:17 God caused her (the ostrich) to forget wisdom, i.e. did not endow her with it. Impf. יַשֶּׁה לְךָ מִן־ Jb 11:6 Eloah allows a part of thy guilt to be forgotten thee, i.e. does not reckon it to thee in full (𝔊 = יִשְׁוֶה לְךָ מֵאֱלוֹהַּ כַּעֲוֹנֶ֑ךָ \[Du\] there is equivalent to thee from Eloah, according to thine iniquity, cf. Bi Che Job and Sol.; Bu reads נָשָׁה for יַשֶּׁה; Du rejects ver. as gloss).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָשָׁה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5382/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 3:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.17/)

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וַתִּזְנַ֧ח מִשָּׁל֛וֹם נַפְשִׁ֖י נָשִׁ֥יתִי טוֹבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.excluded from peace self my I.have.forgotten good

*JPS 1917:* And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity.

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[Job 39:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.17/)

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כִּֽי־הִשָּׁ֣הּ אֱל֣וֹהַּ חָכְמָ֑ה וְלֹא־חָ֥לַק לָ֝הּ֗ בַּבִּינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he has.made.it.forget God wisdom and not he.gave.a.share to it in (the) understanding

*JPS 1917:* Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding.

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