Strong's Hebrew · H5384

H5384 nâsheh

נָשֶׁה

naw-sheh'

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nâsheh appears twice in Scripture, both in Genesis 32:32. In the Doxa app, open that verse, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

rheumatic or crippled (from the incident to Jacob)

In the King James Version

which shrank.

Derivation

from H5382 (נָשָׁה), in the sense of failure;

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Genesis 32:32

“Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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