נָזָה
nâzâh · naw-zaw'
to spirt, i.e. besprinkle (especially in expiation)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to spirt, i.e. besprinkle (especially in expiation)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: sprinkle.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to cut, to sustain › to reveal, behold
The seed, life continuing that works to cut, to sustain that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָזָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 17 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and sprinkle8 · 33%
- and he shall sprinkle3 · 13%
- and when there is sprinkled1 · 4%
- that whereon it was sprinkled1 · 4%
- and he sprinkled1 · 4%
- and sprinkled1 · 4%
- and shall sprinkle1 · 4%
- shall sprinkle1 · 4%
- shall he sprinkle1 · 4%
- them: sprinkle1 · 4%
- person shall sprinkle1 · 4%
- unto them, that he that sprinkleth1 · 4%
- was sprinkled1 · 4%
- so shall he sprinkle1 · 4%
- shall be sprinkled1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.