Strong's #5066: nagash (pronounced naw-gash')
a primitive root; to be or come (causatively, bring) near (for any purpose); euphemistically, to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack; relig. to worship; causatively, to present; figuratively, to adduce an argument; by reversal, to stand back:--(make to) approach (nigh), bring (forth, hither, near), (cause to) come (hither, near, nigh), give place, go hard (up), (be, draw, go) near (nigh), offer, overtake, present, put, stand.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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nâgash
1) to draw near, approach
1a) (Qal) to draw or come near
1a1) of humans
1a1a) of sexual intercourse
1a2) of inanimate subject
1a2a) to approach one another
1b) (Niphal) to draw near
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to approach, bring near, bring
1d) (Hophal) to be brought near
1e) (Hithpael) to draw near
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 125 times:
Isaiah 41:21: "your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob."
Isaiah 41:22: " Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what"
Isaiah 45:20: "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge"
Isaiah 45:21: "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this"
Isaiah 49:20: "in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell."
Isaiah 50:8: "together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to"
Isaiah 65:5: "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These"
Jeremiah 30:21: "shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who"
Jeremiah 30:21: "that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 42:1: "from the least even unto the greatest, came near,"
Jeremiah 46:3: "Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle."
Ezekiel 9:6: "both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man"
Ezekiel 44:13: "And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,"
Ezekiel 44:13: "come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in"
Joel 3:9: "let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:"
Amos 5:25: " Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?"
Amos 6:3: "day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;"
Amos 9:10: "which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent"
Amos 9:13: "saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth"
Malachi 1:7: " Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted"
Malachi 1:8: "And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer"
Malachi 1:8: "is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil?"
Malachi 1:11: "among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering:"
Malachi 2:12: "and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 3:3: "and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness."
