Strong's #5381: nasag (pronounced naw-sag')

a primitive root; to reach (literally or figuratively):--ability, be able, attain (unto), (be able to, can) get, lay at, put, reach, remove, wax rich, X surely, (over-)take (hold of, on, upon).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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nâśag

1) to reach, overtake, take hold upon

1a) (Hiphil)

1a1) to overtake

1a2) to reach, attain to, cause to reach

1a3) to be able to secure, reach, have enough

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 50 times:

 

Genesis 31:25: "Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent"
Genesis 44:4: "unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto"
Genesis 44:6: " And he overtook them, and he spoke unto them these same words."
Genesis 47:9: "of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life"
Exodus 14:9: "of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside"
Exodus 15:9: "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied"
Leviticus 5:11: "But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two"
Leviticus 14:21: "And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one"
Leviticus 14:22: "young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering,"
Leviticus 14:30: "the young pigeons, such as he can get;"
Leviticus 14:31: "Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other"
Leviticus 14:32: "whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing."
Leviticus 25:26: "the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able"
Leviticus 25:47: "And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by"
Leviticus 25:49: "of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself."
Leviticus 26:5: "And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time:"
Leviticus 26:5: "unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread"
Leviticus 27:8: "the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability"
Numbers 6:21: "beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which"
Deuteronomy 19:6: "the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long,"
Deuteronomy 28:2: "blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD"
Deuteronomy 28:15: "curses shall come upon thee, and overtake"
Deuteronomy 28:45: "shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst"
Joshua 2:5: "after them quickly; for ye shall overtake"
1 Samuel 14:26: "the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for"
1 Samuel 30:8: "after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake"
1 Samuel 30:8: "them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover"
1 Samuel 30:8: "them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover"
2 Samuel 15:14: "Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring"
2 Kings 25:5: "pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army"
1 Chronicles 21:12: "before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days"
Job 24:2: " Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed"
Job 27:20: "Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night."
Job 41:26: "The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon."
Psalms 7:5: "Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay"
Psalms 18:37: "I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed."
Psalms 40:12: "innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not"
Psalms 69:24: "upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold"
Proverbs 2:19: "None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life."
Isaiah 35:10: "joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing"
Isaiah 51:11: "joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning"
Isaiah 59:9: "is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light,"
Jeremiah 39:5: "army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho:"
Jeremiah 42:16: "which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt,"
Jeremiah 52:8: "pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho;"
Lamentations 1:3: "she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits."
Ezekiel 46:7: "and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and a hin of oil to an ephah."
Hosea 2:7: "her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say,"
Hosea 10:9: "against the children of iniquity did not overtake"
Zechariah 1:6: "my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as"