נָשַׂק
nâsaq · H5400 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to build a fire, to kindle a fire
Causative action by which humans cause fuel such a firewood to start burning
ExamplesIsaiah 44:15 Then it becomes something for a person to burn, so he takes one of them and gets warm; he also makes a fire and bakes bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a carved image and bows down before it.
Ezekiel 39:9 “Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both bucklers and shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.
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anger flares up
Literally: fire is kindled; hence: process by which a deity experiences an extreme displeasure, as a fire that flares up
ExamplesPsalm 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard and was full of wrath; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also mounted against Israel,
How it’s used In 2 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
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- אֵשׁfire 1
- Not stated: they 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ יַעֲקֹבJacob 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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Near synonyms 5 words
- בָּעַר bâʻar · H1197 · to burn
- Both words denote burning and overlap in the sense of burning and kindling.
- יָצַת yâtsath · H3341 · to set fire on, to set on fire, to kindle
- Both words denote setting something on fire. יָצַת (yâtsath, H3341) has a broader range ("be desolate"), while נָשַׂק (nâsaq, H5400) is rare, with three occurrences.
- שָׂרַף sâraph · H8313 · to burn
- Both terms denote burning or kindling actions, overlapping in the semantic space of combustion or fire.
- יָקַד yâqad · H3344 · to burn, to keep burning
- Both terms share the core senses "burn, kindle," genuine functional overlap as burning or kindling verbs.
- צוּת tsûwth · H6702 · to set on fire
- Both words are verbs of burning or kindling with an overlapping core sense of physical burning.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Burn002001001009
- The word describes burning or kindling, tying it to the ignition and combustion of fire.
- Angry002001002002
- The word's burning sense extends figuratively to anger kindled against someone, a broader emotional-heat sense than literal combustion.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5400. nasaq [שָׂלִק] verb kindle, burn (Ecclus 43:4 margin הִסִּיק, Neh 7:21; Neh 7:23…
[שָׂלִק] verb kindle, burn (Ecclus 43:4 margin הִסִּיק, Neh 7:21; Neh 7:23 הִשִּׂיק, burn; Aramaic (also BA) סְלַק ascend, Aph`el cause to go up (in flame), offer sacrifice; , Palmyrene סלק ascend); —
Niph`al Perfect3feminine singular בְיַעֲקֹב נִשְּׂקָה אֵשׁ Psa 78:21 a fire was kindled against Jacob.
Hiph`il make a fire burn: Perfect3plural consecutive וְהִשִּׂיקוּ, with ב of thing; Imperfect3masculine singular absolute יְשִּׂיק Isa 44:15 (both || בִּעֵר).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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