Nâçag — H5253

Definition

verb

to retreat

1. to move away, backslide, move, go, turn back
1. (Qal) to backslide, prove recreant to
2. (Hiphil)
1. to displace, move back
2. to remove, carry away
3. (Hophal) to be driven back, be moved back

Usually translated as

remove, take, departing away, turn away

Origin

a primitive root

Occurrences

Nâçag occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (2), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (2), Hosea (1), Micah (2)

• Deuteronomy 19:14 — Thou shalt not remove (תַסִּיג֙) thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
• Deuteronomy 27:17 — Cursed be he that removeth (מַסִּ֖יג) his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Proverbs 22:28 — Remove (תַּ֭סֵּג) not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
• Proverbs 23:10 — Remove (תַּ֭סֵּג) not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
• Isaiah 59:13 — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away (וְנָס֖וֹג) from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
• Isaiah 59:14 — And judgment is turned away (וְהֻסַּ֤ג) backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
• Hosea 5:10 — The princes of Judah were like them that remove (כְּמַסִּיגֵ֖י) the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
• Micah 2:6 — Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take (יִסַּ֖ג) shame.
• Micah 6:14 — Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold (וְתַסֵּג֙), but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.