na.sa describes departing or moving on from a place, especially as people travel from one camp or location to another.

The dominant use describes people, groups, or camps departing and moving on from one location toward another, often followed by arrival or encampment elsewhere. A smaller Hiphil use shows causing an object or group to move, while one Niphal occurrence presents something as carried away or displaced.

1. Departing on a journey or from a camp · dominant

   Qal forms regularly mark a departure from one place in order to travel onward. In Exodus 13:20 the APB renders the clause "They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham," and in Numbers 21:11 it similarly joins departure from Oboth with camping at Iye-abarim. In Exodus 40:36 the imperfect form describes Israel's customary departure whenever the cloud rose.

   Exodus 13:20Exodus 40:36Numbers 21:11Deuteronomy 1:19Genesis 33:17Joshua 3:1
2. Causing movement or removal · occasional

   Hiphil forms place the action on a mover affecting someone or something else. In Exodus 15:22 the APB renders Moses' action as "Moses set out Israel from the Red Sea," while in 2 Kings 4:4 the second-person feminine imperfect occurs in the instruction, "when one is full, set it aside."

   Exodus 15:222 Kings 4:4Ecclesiastes 10:9
3. Being carried away or displaced · rare

   In Isaiah 38:12 the Niphal perfect describes the speaker's generation as "plucked up and carried away from me like a shepherd's tent." The clause presents the movement as something undergone rather than a journey initiated by the subject.

   Isaiah 38:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the travel clauses, the APB commonly uses "set out" and sometimes "journeyed" or "departed"; it also uses "moved" and "carried away" where the clause concerns displacement. These are renderings of whole clauses rather than fixed equivalents for the lemma.