To remove
נָסַגStrong’s H5253nasag (na-sag)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nasag is the Hebrew word usually translated “displace”, “displaces” and “we have turned back”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.”
Meaning
- To move away, backslide, move, go, turn back(Qal) to backslide, prove recreant to · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to be driven back, be moved back
How it's translated
- you displace 2
- you will displace 1
- displaces 1
- and we have turned back 1
- and it has been driven back 1
- like displace 1
- it will be turned back 1
- and you will carry away 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
- Micah 2
- Hosea 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- Proverbs 22:28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
- Proverbs 23:10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- Isaiah 59:13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Isaiah 59:14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
- Hosea 5:10The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Hebrew dictionary
נָסַג nasag · to remove
1) to move away, backslide, move, go, turn back 1a) (Qal) to backslide, prove recreant to 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to displace, move back 1b2) to remove, carry away 1d) (Hophal) to be driven back, be moved back
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “remove” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REMOVE, verb transitive
[Latin removeo; re and moveo, to move.]
- To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark” Deuteronomy 19:14
- To displace from an office.
- To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.“REMOVE sorrow from thine heart” Ecclesiastes 11:10
- To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.
All definitions and other forms of “remove”
- To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.
REMOVE, verb intransitive
- To change place in any manner.
- To go from one place to another.
- To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.
REMOVE, noun
- Change of place.
- Translation of one to the place of another.
- State of being removed.
- Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
- Departure; a going away.
- The act of changing place; removal.
- A step in any scale of gradation.
- Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove
- The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.
- A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.
- Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.