To struggle
נָצָהStrong’s H5327natsah (na-tsah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Natsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “struggled together”, “ruined” and “struggling together”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?”
Meaning
- To struggle(Niphal) to struggle · (Hiphil) to struggle
- To strip off, make desolate, fall in ruins(Qal) to fall in ruins · (Niphal) desolated, ruined heaps (participle)
How it's translated
- and they struggled together 2
- ruined 2
- struggling together 1
- they will struggle together 1
- they struggled 1
- when struggled they 1
- they will be struggling together 1
- when struggled with he 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 21:22If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
- Leviticus 24:10And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
- Numbers 26:9And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
- Deuteronomy 25:11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
- 2 Samuel 14:6And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
- 2 Kings 19:25Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Hebrew dictionary
נָצָה natsah · to struggle
1) to struggle 1a) (Niphal) to struggle 1b) (Hiphil) to struggle
נָצָה natsah · to desolate
1) to strip off, make desolate, fall in ruins 1a) (Qal) to fall in ruins 1b) (Niphal) desolated, ruined heaps (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “struggle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRUGGLE, verb intransitive
[This word may be formed on the root of stretch, right, etc. which signifies to strain; or more directly on the same elements in Latin, to wrinkle.]
- Properly, to strive, or to make efforts with a twisting or with contortions of the body.
- To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend; as, to struggle to save life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle against the stream; to struggle with adversity.
- To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
All definitions and other forms of “struggle”
STRUGGLE, noun
- Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avoid an evil; properly, a violent effort with contortions of the body.
- Contest; contention; strife.
- Agony; contortions of extreme distress.
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.