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title: נצה — fall in ruins · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נצה (lemma:נצה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: fall in ruins. BDB 1906: vb. fall in ruins Niph. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נצה

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«נצה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fall in ruins** — 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:** lemma:נצה · **BDB:** נָצָה²

### Glosses

has.it.become.ruined? (1); it.will.become.ruined (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fall in ruins [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5e6_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. fall in ruins Niph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5e6_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. fall in ruins;— Impf. 3 fpl. עָרַיִךְ תִּצֶּינָה מֵאֵין יוֹשֵׁב Je 4:7 thy cities shall fall in ruins (read prob. תִּנָּצֶינָה Niph.). Pt. pl. גַּלִּים נִצִּים ruined heaps, i.e. ruin-heaps, 2 K 19:25 = Is 37:26.—On Je 2:15; 9:9, 11; 46:19 v. יצת.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נצה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5e6_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 46:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.19/)

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כְּלֵ֤י גוֹלָה֙ עֲשִׂ֣י לָ֔ךְ יוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת בַּת־מִצְרָ֑יִם כִּֽי־נֹף֙ לְשַׁמָּ֣ה תִֽהְיֶ֔ה וְנִצְּתָ֖ה מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב׃ס

*Word for word:* baggage(s) of.exile make for yourself O.inhabitant\[s\] (of).the.daughter of.Egypt (dm) Memphis (into).a waste it.will.become and it.will.become.ruined from not an.inhabitant

*JPS 1917:* O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Noph shall become a desolation, and shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.

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[Jeremiah 9:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.11/)

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מִֽי־הָאִ֤ישׁ הֶֽחָכָם֙ וְיָבֵ֣ן אֶת־זֹ֔את וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֧ר פִּֽי־יְהוָ֛ה אֵלָ֖יו וְיַגִּדָ֑הּ עַל־מָה֙ אָבְדָ֣ה הָאָ֔רֶץ נִצְּתָ֥ה כַמִּדְבָּ֖ר מִבְּלִ֖י עֹבֵֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* who? \[is\].the person (the) wise and he.will.understand (et) this and \[the.one\].whom it.has.spoken the.mouth of.Yahweh to him so that he.may.declare.it concerning what? has.it.been.destroyed the land has.it.become.ruined? like (the) wilderness from not \[one.who\].passes.through

*JPS 1917:* Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it? Wherefore is the land perished and laid waste like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

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