Word

נָשַׁל

nâshal · H5394 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

to fall off

Process by which part of an object gets detached more or less spontaneously

Examples
Deuteronomy 19:5 as when a person goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live.
Deuteronomy 28:40 “You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will drop off prematurely.
Action by which humans take off their shoes (to take off (sandals))

Examples
Exodus 3:5 Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
Joshua 5:15 And the captain of the LORD’S army said to Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
to drive out, to cut off

Literally: to detach; hence: causative action by which humans or deities force (other) humans to leave their dwelling-places

Examples
Deuteronomy 7:1 “When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to take possession of it, and He drives away many nations from before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,
Deuteronomy 7:22 “And the LORD your God will drive away these nations from you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, otherwise the wild animals would become too numerous for you.
2 Kings 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Aram restored Elath to Aram, and drove the Judeans away from Elath; and the Arameans came to Elath and have lived there to this day.

How it’s used In 3 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

7 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated: you (one person) 2
Not stated: he, she or it 2
בַּרְזֶלiron 1
זַיִתolive tree 1
יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

5 occurrences in 3 groups

גּוֹיnation, people 2
נַעַלsandal 2
יְהוּדִיJudean 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

מִןfrom+ פָּנִיםface, presence, before 2
מִןfrom+ אֵילוֹתEloth 1
מִןfrom+ עֵץtree, wood 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.

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.

In the other Testament 1 word

λύω lýō · G3089 · to untie, to loosen, to release: Greek λύω renders Hebrew נָשַׁל in contexts of loosening/removing (e.g. sandals, Exodus 3:5), capturing the shared semantic core of unfastening or releasing something bound or attached.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Non-Whole002003001021: The word describes driving out or dispossessing, as the LORD drives out the Canaanite nations before Israel (Deuteronomy 7:1, Joshua 23:5), tying the word to forcible removal from a place.
Move002002001012: The word's driving-out sense ties it to the resulting expulsion and displacement, a broader sense of forced movement than the bare act of dispossession.

Word family 3 words

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

נָשַׁלnâshal · H5394שָׁלָה shâlâh · H7953 · to be at ease, to be at peace, to be negligent · 1×שִׁלְיָה shilyâh · H7988 · afterbirth · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5394. nashal נָשַׁל verb 1. intransitive slip or drop off; also transitive: 2 draw off.…

H5394. nashal
נָשַׁל verb 1. intransitive slip or drop off; also transitive:
2 draw off.
3 clear away (Late Hebrew נָשַׁל probably intransitive, Qal not used, but noun נְשִׁילָה a falling off, etc.; Pi`el, Hiph`il cast off, let fall off, Niph`al be cast off, fall off; ᵑ7 Aph`el אַשֵּׁיל cast out (from house); Arabic excidit pluma, etc.; but also transitive, avis mutavit rejecitque plumas (Frey); — celeriter extraxit, etc., is denominative from loan-word according to Frä88); —
Qal Perfect וְנָשַׁל consecutive Deu 7:1-2t.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִשַּׁל Deu 28:40; Imperative masculine singular שַׁל Exo 3:5; Jos 5:15; —
1 slip or drop off, מִןהָֿעֵץ הַבַּרְזֶל וְנָשַׁל Deu 19:5 and the iron slippeth off from the wood (i.e. axe-head from helve); זֵיתֶ֑ךָ יִשַּׁל Deu 28:40 thine olives shall drop off (absolute).
2 draw off sandal from (מֵעַל) foot Exo 3:5 (E), Jos 5:15 (JE).
3 clear away nations מִמָּנֶיךָ Deu 7:1, Deu 7:22.
Pi`el Imperfect3masculine singular וַיְנַשֵּׁל 2Ki 16:6 he cleared the Jews entirely out of (מִן) Elath.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Move3 occurrences Non-Whole4 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