Word

נָשָׁה

nâshâh · H5382 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

to forget

Process by which animals, humans, or deities lose recollection of (other) humans or deities, or something that happened in the past

Examples
Job 11:6 And show you the secrets of wisdom! For sound wisdom has two sides. Know then that God forgets part of your guilt.
Isaiah 44:21 “Remember these things, Jacob, And Israel, for you are My servant; I have formed you, you are My servant, Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me.
Lamentations 3:17 My soul has been excluded from peace; I have forgotten happiness.
to make forget

Causative process by which deities cause humans or animals to lose recollection of (other) animals, or something that happened in the past

Examples
Genesis 41:51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh; “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all of my father’s household.”
Job 39:17 Because God has made her forget wisdom, And has not given her a share of understanding.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

6 occurrences in 4 groups

אֱלוֹהַּGod, god 2
Not stated: I 2
אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

טוֹבgood 1
נִיme 1
הָher 1
כֶםyou 1

Second objectAs in “call him Lord”

2 occurrences in 3 groups

בַּיִתhouse, household 1
חׇכְמָהwisdom 1
עָמָלtoil, trouble 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom+ עָוֺןiniquity 1
לto/for+ ךָּyou 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לֹאnot 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָדַעto know 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Non-Know002004002008: The word describes forgetting, as Joseph names his son Manasseh because God has made him forget his hardship (Genesis 41:51), tying the word to a lapse of memory or awareness.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָשָׁהnâshâh · H5382מַשָּׁא mashshâʼ · H4855 · debt · 3×מַשָּׁאָה mashshâʼâh · H4859 · loan, debt · 2×נָשֶׁה nâsheh · H5384 · thigh muscle · 2×מַשֶּׁה mashsheh · H4874 · loan · 1×נְשִׁי nᵉshîy · H5386 · debt · 1×נְשִׁיָּה nᵉshîyâh · H5388 · oblivion · 1×נָשָׁה nâshâh · H5383 · to lend, to oblige, to require · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5382. nashah III. [נָשָׁא] forget, see II. נָשָׁה. below II. [נָשָׁה] verb forget (Late…

H5382. nashah
III. [נָשָׁא] forget, see II. נָשָׁה. below
II. [נָשָׁה] verb forget (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian nišîtu perhaps forgottenness DlHWB 486; Aramaic נְשָׁא (especially Ithpe`el, Aph`el), forget; Arabic forget, neglect; compare Ethiopic ignoscere, condonare, indulgere Di633); —
Qal Perfect1singular נָשׁאֹ אֶתְכֶם וְנָשִׁיתִי Jer 23:39 I will forget you finally (but ᵑ6 ᵑ9 ᵐ5 Che Gie וְנָשָׂאתִי, followed by וְנָטַשְׁתִּי as Jer 23:33 b, see III. מַשָּׂא); טוֺבָה נָשִׁיתִי Lam 3:17 I have forgotten prosperity; Imperfect1singular הַאֶשֶּׁה shall I forget ? i.e. overlook, read by We Mic 6:10 plausibly for הַאִשׁ ᵑ0; Infinitive absolute ׳(ל נָשׁאֹ א) Jer 23:39 (see above).
Niph`al Imperfect2masculine singular suffix תִּנָּשֵׁנִי Isa 44:21 thou shalt not be forgotten of me, but dubious; Ges§ 117* תִּנְשֵׁנִי (Qal); CheHpt תִּטְּשֵׁנִי (compare Deu 32:15).
Pi`el Perfect3masculine singular suffix נַשַּׁ֫נִי Gen 41:51 (E) God hath made me forget + accusative of thing (ַ֯ in 1st syllable only here, influence of מְנַשֶּׁה Ges§ 52m).
Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular suffix חָכְמָה הִשָּׁהּ Job 39:17 God caused her (the ostrich) to forget wisdom, i.e. did not endow her with it. Imperfect מִןֿ לְךָ יַשֶּׁה Job 11:6 Eloah allows a part of thy guilt to be forgotten thee, i.e. does not reckon it to thee in full (ᵐ5 = כַּעֲוֺנֶ֑ךָ מֵאֱלוֺהַּ לְךָ יִשְׁוֶה [Du] there is equivalent to thee from Eloah, according to thine iniquity, compare Bi CheJob and Solomon; Bu reads נָשָׁה for יַשֶּׁה; Du rejects ver. as gloss).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Non-Know5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0