Strong's Hebrew · H5375
נָשָׂא
nâsâʼ · naw-saw'
accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable ([phrase] man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, [idiom] needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, [phrase] swear, take (away, up), [idiom] utterly, wear, yield.
Definition
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Derivation
or נָסָה; (Psalm 4:6 (H7 (אֲבַד))), a primitive root;
Appears 655 times in Scripture
“For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.”
“Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.”
““Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.”
“But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.”
“And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)”
“What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?”
“After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,”
“And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.”
“But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.”
“So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.””
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).