נְסַק
to ascend
‘to ascend’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hophal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5267 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 3:22 הַסִּ֨קוּ֙ Hiphil pf 3mp Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Daniel 6:23 לְ/הַנְסָקָ֣ה וְ/הֻסַּ֨ק prep + Hiphil inf.cs conj + Hophal pf 3ms Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to ascend” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb נסק (nᵉçaq). It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. First canonically at Daniel 3:22, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5267 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: They should take 1×, Took up 1×, Up 1×
- American Standard Version: They should take 1×, Took up 1×, Up 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be taken up 1×, So 1×, Took up 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5267 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5267 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5267 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to ascend, come up
- (Aphel) to lift, take up
- (Hophal) to be taken up
Word origin
Derived from נסק (nâçaq) (H5266) — to ascend.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נָסַק
- to go up, ascend; v. מָסַק.
- 1. to impose a tax, to assess, v. מַסִּיק II.
- 2. to bring to a conclusion, v. מַסִּיק I. I.
- 3. to put on wood, to make the flame rise; [cmp. עָלָה Hif.,] to start a fire, to heat. Bets. 32ᵃ, a. e. מַסִּיקִין בכלים וכ׳ you may, on the Holy Day, use wooden vessels for heating &c. Pes. 27ᵇ המַסִּיק he who put the wood on. Ib. תנור שהִסִּיקוֹ וכ׳ if one heated an oven with wood belonging to the sanctuary &c. Sabb. III, 1 כירה שהִסִּיקוּהָ בקש וכ׳ a range which they heated with straw &c. Tosef. Yoma II, 5; Yoma 38ᵃ מַסִּיקִין מבפנים placed the fire deep into the stove. Sabb. 41ᵃ; a. fr.—[Midr. Till. to Ps. XXVIII, v. infra.]
- ; Hof. הוּסָּק to be heated. Y. Ber. IV, 8ᵇ top נִסּוֹקֶת; ib. IX, 14ᵇ top נִיסּ׳, v. מֶרְחָץ.—Pes. 30ᵇ top הא ה׳ התנור but if the oven has been made glowing. Midr. Till. to Ps. XXVIII אם הוא נ׳ … יהא ני׳ וכ׳ if it (the furnace) is usually heated with one bundle, let it now be heated with seven; ib. אם הוא מסיק בשבעה יהא מסיק וכ׳ (corr. acc.) if it is heated with seven bundles, let it be heated &c. Kel. V, 4. Tosef. Ḥull. I, 22 עד שלא הוּסְּקוּ before they are hardened by heating; a. fr.
נְסַק
- , to go up. Impf. יִסַּק, יֵיסַק; inf. מִיסַּק, מֵיסַק; imper. סַק, סוּק. Targ. II Sam. V, 22, sq. Targ. O. Num. XX, 19 נֵיסָּק ed. Berl. Targ. Gen. XLIV, 17; a. fr.—Kidd. 50ᵃ אדעתא למֵיסַק וכ׳ with the idea of going up to Palestine. Bets. 27ᵃ אזכי ואִסַּק; M. Kat. 22ᵃ ואֵיסק (not ואסיק), a. e., v. זְכֵי; a. fr.
- 1. to cause to rise, to bring up, offer. Targ. Lev. II, 9, a. fr. (h. text הקטיר). Targ. II Sam. VI, 2 לַאֲסָקָא ed. Wil. Targ. Lev. XI, 3, sq.; a. fr.—Targ. Josh. XVII, 13 מַסְקֵי מסין tributaries.—Y. Keth. XI, 34ᵇ bot. והוה מַסֵּיק לון מזונין וכ׳ and he offered them support as long as they lived. Gitt. 56ᵇ, a. fr. אַסְּקֵיה וכ׳, v. נְגִידָא III. Y. Peah I, 15ᶜ אַסְּקוּנֵיה למאתים וכ׳ they raised the offer to two hundred, to one thousand; Y. Kidd. I, 61ᵇ top אַסְּקִינֵיה. Y. Maas. Sh. IV, end, 55ᶜ מַסִּיק חסין will produce lettuce; a. fr.
- 2. (sub. בישרא) to produce new flesh, to heal. Gitt. 69ᵃ לאַסּוּקֵי וכ׳ for healing let him take &c.
- 3. to heat. Targ. Koh. II, 6.
- 4. to finish. Succ. 39ᵃ אַסּוּקֵי מילתא the winding up of a proceeding; Yeb. 106ᵇ Ar. (ed. אפסוקי).
- 5. (with בִּשְׁמָא) to name after, to adopt a name. Yoma 38ᵇ לא מַסְּקִינָן בשמייהו we do not name children after them. Gitt. 11ᵇ דלא שכיחי ישראל דמַסְּקֵי בשמהתייהו names which Israelites are not in the habit of adopting. Shebu. 29ᵃ ואסיק להו (שמא) זוזי and named them coins; a. e.
- 6. (with זוזי, a. ב of person) to produce a claim against. Shebu. 41ᵇ הב לי … דמַסִּיקְנָא בך give me the one hundred Zuz which I claim against thee (which thou owest me). Keth. 85ᵃ הוו מַסְּקֵּי ביה זוזי וכ׳, v. חוֹזָאֵי. B. Kam. 97ᵃ אינשי דמסיק בהו זוזי persons against whom he had a claim; a. e.
- 7. (with אדעתא) to have in mind. Shebu. 29ᵃ דמסקי אדעתייהו וכ׳ they might have in mind an idol.
- 1. to be offered up. Targ. O. Lev. II, 12 יִתַּסְּקוּן ed. Berl. (oth. ed. a. Y. יְתַסְקוּן); a. e.
- 2. to be kindled, burnt. Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 21; a. e.
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Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H5267 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַסִּ֨קוּ֙ | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Daniel 3:22 | 1 |
| וְ/הֻסַּ֨ק | Verb, Hophal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 6:23 | 1 |
| לְ/הַנְסָקָ֣ה | Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 6:23 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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