Lexicon
נָשָׁה
na.shah
H5382
H:V Hebrew

to forget

6
Occurrences
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Books
Hebrew
Language

na.shah describes forgetting, causing someone to forget, or being forgotten in the supplied biblical uses.

The supplied verses most often show an agent causing someone else to forget, whether trouble, iniquity, or wisdom. They also show direct forgetting and, once, the passive prospect of not being forgotten.

Senses in use

  1. Causing someone to forget · dominant

    In Genesis 41:51, the Piel perfect appears in Joseph's explanation that God made him forget his trouble and his father's house. In Job 11:6 and Job 39:17, the Hiphil forms occur where God causes a person to forget iniquity and causes her to forget wisdom.

  2. Direct forgetting · common

    In Jeremiah 23:39, the first-common-singular Qal sequential perfect stands in the declaration that the speaker will forget and forsake the people and city. In Lamentations 3:17, the first-common-singular Qal perfect occurs after the speaker's soul is thrust far from peace; the APB renders the clause "I forgot prosperity."

  3. Being forgotten · rare

    In Isaiah 44:21, the Niphal imperfect addresses Israel with the assurance that it will not be forgotten by God; the APB renders, "you will not be forgotten by me."

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB uses "made him forget," "causes you to forget," "caused her to forget," "will forget," "forgot," and "will not be forgotten." These renderings reflect the clauses' differing agents and subjects.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture