Lexical Definition

‎נָצָה‎ nâtsâh (naw-tsaw') to struggle ^H:V
a primitive root

be laid waste, runinous, strive (together).

• properly, to go forth, i.e. (by implication) to be expelled, and (consequently) desolate
• causatively, to lay waste
• also (specifically), to quarrel

1) (Qal) to fly
2) to struggle
2a) (Niphal) to struggle
2b) (Hiphil) to struggle
3) to strip off, make desolate, fall in ruins
3a) (Qal) to fall in ruins
3b) (Niphal) desolated, ruined heaps (participle)

See Greek: ἀνάπτω · ἐπισύστασις · ἐφίστημι · καθαιρέω · μάχομαι

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. [‎נָצָה‎] verb Niph`al, Hiph`il struggle (Late Hebrew id., Hithpa`el (Jastr⁹²⁸); Aramaic ‎נְצָא‎, quarrel; Arabic apprehendit, arripuit aliquem antiis suis, Ethiopic vellere, evellere, are perhaps denominative from , (see ‎נוֺצָה‎), so Thes); —

Niph`al reciprocal struggle with each other: Imperfect 3 masculine plural ‎יִנָּצוּ‎ Exod 21:22 (E), Lev 24:10 (H), 2Sam 14:6 ‎׳‎‎יִנּ‎ ‎יַחְדָּו‎ Deut 25:11 Participle ‎נִצִּים‎ Exod 2:13 (E); all of physical struggle, wrestling, and the like. Hiph`il engage in a struggle against: Perfect 3 plural ‎הִצּוּ‎ Num 26:9 (‎עַל‎); Infinitive construct suffix ‎הַצֹּתָם‎ vNum 26:9 (‎עַל‎); ‎הַצּוֺתוֺ אֶת‎ Ps 60:2* (title); only here of war, hence Klo's suggestion (compare Buhl¹³) ‎הַכּוֺתוֺ‎ is plausible (compare 2Sam 8:3; 2Sam 8:5; 2Sam 8:9).

III. [‎נָצָה‎] verb fall in ruins; —

Qal Imperfect 3 feminine plural ‎עָרַיִךְ תִּצֶּינָה מֵאֵין יוֺשֵׁב‎ Jer 4:7 thy cities shall fall in ruins (read probably ‎תִּנָּצֶינָה‎ Niph`al). Niph`al Participle plural ‎גַּלִּים נִצִּים‎ ruined heaps, i.e. ruin-heaps, 2Kgs 19:25 = Isa 37:26. — On Jer 2:15; Jer 9:9*; Jer 9:11*; Jer 46:19 see ‎יצת‎.

‎נִצָּה‎ see ‎נצץ‎. ‎נצָתָהּ‎ Lev Jer 1:16 see ‎נוֺצָה‎ above

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