Aramaic

Verb

נשא • ‎(transliteration needed)

1. to bear, to carry

Hebrew

Etymology 1

Compare Ge'ez ነሥአ ‎(näśʾä, “to lift, to take”).

Verb

נָשָׂא • ‎(nasá) ‎(pa'al construction, infinitive לָשֵׂאת, future יישא \ יִשָּׂא, passive counterpart נישא \ נִשָּׂא)

1. to lift
2. to bear, carry, support
   • 2014, “Leviathan”, performed by Daniela Spector:

     אבל אתה נושא אותי כל השנים כמו היית לווייתן ואני יונה.‎

     avál atá nosé otí kol hashaním k'mó hayíta livyatán va'aní yoná.

     But you carried me all these years as if you were Leviathan and I Jonah.

3. to endure
4. to deliver (a speech)

Conjugation

See also

• נישא \ נִשָּׂא ‎(nisá)
• הִשִּׂיא ‎(hisí)
• הִתְנַשֵּׂא ‎(hitnasé)
• נָשׂוּא ‎(nasú)
• נָשׂוּי ‎(nasúi)

Verb

נִשָּׂא • ‎(nisá) ‎(nif'al construction)

1. Defective spelling of נישא.

Verb

נִשֵּׂא • ‎(nisé) ‎(pi'el construction)

1. Defective spelling of נישא.

References

• Gesenius, Strong's Concordance number: H5375

Etymology 2

Verb

נָשָׁא • ‎(nashá) ‎(pa'al construction)

1. To lead astray, that is, (mentally) to delude, or (morally) to seduce: - beguile, deceive, X greatly, X utterly.

References

• “H5377”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Anagrams

• אנ״ש, שנא