To pull
נָסַחStrong’s H5255nasach (na-sach)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nasach is the Hebrew word usually translated “torn away”, “tear away you” and “tears down”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.”
Meaning
- To pull or tear away(Qal) to tear away, tear down · (Niphal) to be torn away
How it's translated
- and you will be torn away 1
- and he will tear away you 1
- they will be torn away 1
- he tears down 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 52:5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
- Proverbs 2:22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
- Proverbs 15:25The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Hebrew dictionary
נָסַח nasach · to pull
1) to pull or tear away 1a) (Qal) to tear away, tear down 1b) (Niphal) to be torn away Aramaic equivalent: ne.sach (נְסַח "to pull away" H5256)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pull” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PULL, verb transitive
[Latin vello.]
- To draw; to draw towards one or to make an effort to draw. pull differs from draw; we use draw when motion follows the effort, and pull is used in the same sense; but we may also pull forever without drawing or moving the thing.“Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in to him into the ark” Genesis 8:9
- To pluck; to gather by drawing or forcing off or out; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax.
- To tear; to rend; but in this sense followed by some qualifying word or phrase; as, to pull in pieces; to pull asunder or apart.
- To demolish; to subvert; to destroy.
All definitions and other forms of “pull”
- To bring down; to degrade; to humble.
PULL, noun
The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move by drawing towards one.
- A contest; a struggle.
- Pluck; violence suffered.
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.