To overtake
נָשַׂגStrong’s H5381nasag (na-sag)
Appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nasag is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will reach”, “overtook” and “overtake you”. It appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament.
“But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.”
Meaning
- To reach, overtake, take hold upon(Hiphil)
How it's translated
- it will reach 10
- and they overtook 4
- and they will overtake you 3
- and it will reach 2
- they will overtake 2
- and he overtook 1
- and you will overtake them 1
- and he overtook them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 11
- Genesis 4
- Deuteronomy 4
- Psalms 4
- Job 3
- Isaiah 3
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:25Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
- Genesis 44:4And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
- Genesis 44:6And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
- Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
- Exodus 14:9But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
- Exodus 15:9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
All 47 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נָשַׂג nasag · to overtake
1) to reach, overtake, take hold upon 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to overtake 1a2) to reach, attain to, cause to reach 1a3) to be able to secure, reach, have enough
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “overtake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OVERTA'KE, verb transitive
- To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress or motion; to catch.“The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake” Exodus 15:9
- To come upon; to fall on afterwards.
- To take by surprise.“Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual, restore such one in the spirit of meekness” Galatians 6:1
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.