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נָשַׂג

to overtake

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H5381 Strong's Hebrew
nâsag Transliteration
/naw-sag'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 50 appearances

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About this entry

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נשג (nâsag) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to overtake.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “overtook” in the King James Version, “reaches” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 47 verses across 19 books, a moderately common footprint. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 31:25. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
ability
Modern gloss
to overtake
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H5381 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 →

47
distinct verses
The word appears in 47 distinct verses.
19 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 19 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 31:25
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 31:25.
Zechariah 1:6
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Zechariah 1:6.
#739
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 739 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 47 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 22 · 47%
  • Historical 6 · 13%
  • Wisdom 8 · 17%
  • Prophets 11 · 23%

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 47 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 22 verses · 47%
  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 15 verses · 32%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 21%

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: Overtook 6×, Overtake 3×, Thee and overtake 3×
  • American Standard Version: Overtake 5×, Overtook 4×, Shall reach 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Overtook 5×, He can afford 3×, Overtake 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Reaches 6×, And 4×, Does 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H5381 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Overtook” 6×
  • “Overtake” 3×
  • “Thee and overtake” 3×
  • “Shall reach” 2×
  • “Take hold” 2×
  • “They shall obtain” 2×

Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H5381 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Overtake” 5×
  • “Overtook” 4×
  • “Shall reach” 2×
  • “Thee” 2×
  • “They shall obtain” 2×

Plus 30 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H5381 across 47 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Overtook” 5×
  • “He can afford” 3×
  • “Overtake” 3×
  • “Overtake you” 3×
  • “Afford” 2×
  • “He prospers” 2×
  • “Overtake him” 2×
  • “Overtook them” 2×
  • “Will continue” 2×
  • “Will overtake them” 2×

Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H5381 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Reaches” 6×
  • “And” 4×
  • “Does” 3×
  • “Reach” 3×
  • “Reach you” 3×
  • “Overtake” 2×
  • “Overtake them” 2×
  • “Overtake us” 2×
  • “Overtaking” 2×
  • “Overtook” 2×
  • “Them” 2×
  • “Will overtake” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 30 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in the full BDB

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol Meaning
𝔊 the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙 the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖 the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗 the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ the Psalms
√ root (the underlying root or stem)
‖ parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
† the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.

Hiphil

  • 1. overtake
  • 2.
    • a. reach, attain
    • b. cause to reach, bring, put
  • 3. fig. one’s hand has reached, i.e. one is able, or has enough

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.


Word origin

[ נָשַׂג ] vb. only Hiph. reach, overtake

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: a primitive root

Part of speech: Verb TWOT: 1422


Forms in the corpus

The 47 distinct written forms H5381 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
תַּשִּׂ֖יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Ezekiel 46:7 4
אַשִּׂ֖יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Exodus 15:9 1
הִשִּׂ֖יגוּ Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Zechariah 1:6 1
הִשִּׂ֗יגוּ Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Genesis 47:9 1
הִשִּׂ֥יגָה Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Leviticus 25:49 1
הִשִּׂיג֖וּ/הָ Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Lamentations 1:3 1
הִשִּׂיג֣וּ/נִי Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Psalms 40:12 1
הַֽ/אַשִּׂגֶ֑/נּוּ Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 Samuel 30:8 1
הַשֵּׂ֥ג Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Absolute 1 Samuel 30:8 1
וְ/אַשִּׂיגֵ֑/ם Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular Psalms 18:37 1
וְ/הִשִּׂ֣יגָה Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Leviticus 25:26 1
וְ/הִשִּׂ֨יג Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Leviticus 26:5 1
וְ/הִשִּׂגָ֨/נוּ֙ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 Samuel 15:14 1
וְ/הִשִּׂיג֔וּ/ךָ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Deuteronomy 28:45 1
וְ/הִשִּׂיג֛/וֹ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 19:6 1
וְ/הִשִּׂיגֻ֑/ךָ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Deuteronomy 28:2 1
וְ/הִשִּׂיגֽוּ/ךָ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Deuteronomy 28:15 1
וְ/הִשַּׂגְתָּ/ם֙ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Genesis 44:4 1
וְ/יַשֵּׂ֗ג Verb, Hiphil, Jussive, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Psalms 7:5 1
וַ/יַּשִּׂ֣גוּ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Jeremiah 39:5 1
וַ/יַּשִּׂ֤יגוּ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Exodus 14:9 1
וַ/יַּשִּׂ֥גוּ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 2 Kings 25:5 1
וַ/יַּשִּׂ֥יגוּ Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Jeremiah 52:8 1
וַ/יַּשֵּׂ֥ג Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Genesis 31:25 1
וַֽ/יַּשִּׂגֵ֑/ם Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Genesis 44:6 1
יַ֝שִּׂ֗יגוּ Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Proverbs 2:19 1
יַשִּׂ֑יגוּ Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Job 24:2 1
יַשִּׂ֔יגוּ Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Isaiah 35:10 1
יַשִּׂ֣יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Leviticus 26:5 1
יַשִּׂיג֔וּ/ן Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Isaiah 51:11 1
יַשִּׂיגֵֽ/ם Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Psalms 69:24 1
לְ/מַשֶּׂגֶת֒ Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 Chronicles 21:12 1
מַשִּׂ֤יג Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 Samuel 14:26 1
מַשִּׂיגֵ֣/הוּ Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct Job 41:26 1
מַשֶּׂגֶת֒ Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 14:21 1
תַשִּׂ֗יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Leviticus 25:47 1
תַשִּׂ֣יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Hosea 2:7 1
תַשִּׂ֥יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Leviticus 14:32 1
תַשִּׂ֨יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Leviticus 5:11 1
תַשִּׂיגֵ֖/נוּ Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Isaiah 59:9 1
תַשִּׂיגֵ֧/ם Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Hosea 10:9 1
תַשִּׂיגֽוּ/ם Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Joshua 2:5 1
תַּשִּׂ֞יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Leviticus 14:31 1
תַּשִּׂ֣יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Numbers 6:21 1
תַּשִּׂ֥יג Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Jeremiah 42:16 1
תַּשִּׂיג֙ Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Leviticus 27:8 1
תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣/הוּ Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Job 27:20 1

Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 45 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 47 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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