na.sah is used of pressing a claim or obligation, as with a creditor or an oath imposed on someone.

The clearest attested use concerns pressing an obligation or claim: the participial forms occur in creditor contexts, while the sequential perfect stands in the clause about an oath being laid on a man. The Hiphil imperfect in Psalm 89:23 occurs in a hostile setting, but the translation does not isolate its contribution.

1. Pressing a claim or obligation · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 22:2, the Qal active participle occurs among those gathering to David, and the APB renders the relevant description as "everyone who had a creditor." Isaiah 24:2 likewise uses the Qal active participle in the paired relation of "the creditor" and "the one who owes him." In 1 Kings 8:31, the Qal sequential perfect occurs in the clause where an oath is laid on a man and he comes to swear before the altar.

   1 Samuel 22:2Isaiah 24:21 Kings 8:31

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the participial occurrences through creditor language in 1 Samuel 22:2 and Isaiah 24:2, and presents 1 Kings 8:31 through an oath being laid on a man. In Psalm 89:23, the Hiphil imperfect is not separately identifiable in the translation’s statement about crushing foes.