Forgetfulness
נְשִׁיָּהStrong’s H5388neshiyyah (ne-shiy-yah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Neshiyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “forgetting”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”
Meaning
- Forgetfulness, oblivion
How it's translated
- forgetting 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
נְשִׁיָּה neshiyyah · forgetfulness
forgetfulness, oblivion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “forgetfulness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FORGET'FULNESS, noun
- The quality of losing the remembrance or recollection of a thing; or rather, the quality of being apt to let any thing slip from the mind.
- Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
- Neglect; negligence; careless omission; inattention; as forgetfulness of duty.
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.