nashal (to slip) · Rightly

Meaning

To slip off, drop off, clear away, draw off(Qal) · (Piel) to clear out completely, clear entirely

How it's translated

take off 2
and he will clear away 2
and it will slip off 1
it will drop off 1
and he cleared out 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Deuteronomy 4
Exodus 1
Joshua 1
2 Kings 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Deuteronomy 7:1When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Deuteronomy 7:22And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deuteronomy 19:5As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
Deuteronomy 28:40Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
Joshua 5:15And the captain of the LORD’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
2 Kings 16:6At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

Hebrew dictionary

נָשַׁל nashal · to slip

1) to slip off, drop off, clear away, draw off 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to slip or drop off 1a2) to draw off 1a3) to clear away 1b) (Piel) to clear out completely, clear entirely

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “slip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SLIP, verb intransitive

[Latin labor, to slide.]

To slide; to glide; to move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling or stepping.
To slide; not to tread firmly.
TO move or fly out of place; usually without; as, a bone may slip out of its place.
To sneak; to slink; to depart or withdraw secretly; with away.

All definitions and other forms of “slip”

To err; to fall into error or fault.
To glide; to pass unexpectedly or imperceptibly.
To enter by oversight.
To escape insensibly; to be lost.

SLIP, verb transitive

To convey secretly.
To omit; to lose by negligence.
To part twigs from the branches or stem of a tree.
To escape from; to leave slily.
To let loose; as, to slip the hounds.
To throw off; to disengage one's self from; as, a horse slip his bridle.
To pass over or omit negligently; as, to slip over that main points of a subject.
To tear off; as, to slip off a twig.
To suffer abortion; to miscarry; as a beast.

SLIP, noun

A sliding; act of slipping.
An unintentional error or fault.
A twig separated from the main stock; as the slip of a vine.
A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being so made as to slip or become loose by relaxation of the hand.
An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
A long narrow piece; as a slip of paper.
A counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver. [Not in use.]
Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge-tools.
A particular quantity of yarn.
An opening between wharves or in a dock.
A place having a gradual descent on the bank of a river or harbor, convenient for ship-building.
A long seat or narrow pew in churches.

SLIP'-BOARD, noun

A board sliding in grooves.

SLIP'-KNOT, noun

A bow-knot; a knot which will not beat a strain, or which os easily untied.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.