נָצַל

na.tsalto rescueHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb213 occurrences27 books194 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
Traditional renderings: × at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, × without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, × surely, take (out).

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

213 total
  1. Genesis 31:9וַיַּצֵּ֧ל · has taken away
    Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
  2. Genesis 31:16הִצִּ֤יל · has taken away
    Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
  3. Genesis 32:11הַצִּילֵ֥נִי · deliver me
    Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
  4. Genesis 32:30וַתִּנָּצֵ֖ל · was spared
    So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
  5. Genesis 37:21וַיַּצִּלֵ֖הוּ · he tried to rescue [Joseph]
    When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
  6. Genesis 37:22הַצִּ֤יל · he could rescue
    “Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
  7. Exodus 2:19הִצִּילָ֖נוּ · rescued us
    “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
  8. Exodus 3:8לְהַצִּיל֣וֹ׀ · to rescue them
    I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  9. Exodus 3:22וְנִצַּלְתֶּ֖ם · So you will plunder
    Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”
  10. Exodus 5:23וְהַצֵּ֥ל · delivered; הִצַּ֖לְתָּ · in any way
    Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not delivered Your people in any way.”
  11. Exodus 6:6וְהִצַּלְתִּ֥י · and deliver
    Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
  12. Exodus 12:27הִצִּ֑יל · and spared
    …you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
  13. Exodus 12:36וַֽיְנַצְּל֖וּ · In this way they plundered
    And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.
  14. Exodus 18:4וַיַּצִּלֵ֖נִי · and delivered me
    The other son was named Eliezer, for Moses had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
  15. Exodus 18:8וַיַּצִּלֵ֖ם · had delivered them
    Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
  16. Exodus 18:9הִצִּיל֖וֹ · He had rescued
    And Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had rescued from the hand of the Egyptians.
  17. Exodus 18:10הִצִּ֥יל · has delivered; הִצִּיל֙ · has delivered
    Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.
  18. Exodus 33:6וַיִּֽתְנַצְּל֧וּ · stripped themselves
    So the Israelites stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
  19. Numbers 35:25וְהִצִּ֨ילוּ · is to protect
    The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
  20. Deuteronomy 23:14לְהַצִּֽילְךָ֙ · to protect you
    For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
  21. Deuteronomy 23:15יִנָּצֵ֥ל · if he has taken refuge
    Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
  22. Deuteronomy 25:11לְהַצִּ֥יל · to rescue
    If two men are fighting, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
  23. Deuteronomy 32:39מַצִּֽיל׃ · who can deliver
    See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
  24. Joshua 2:13וְהִצַּלְתֶּ֥ם · and that you will deliver
    …that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”
  25. Joshua 9:26וַיַּצֵּ֥ל · and delivered
    So Joshua did this and delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill the Gibeonites.
  26. Joshua 22:31הִצַּלְתֶּ֛ם · you have delivered
    Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.”
  27. Joshua 24:10וָאַצִּ֥ל · and I delivered
    …but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.
  28. Judges 6:9וָאַצִּ֤ל · I delivered
    I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
  29. Judges 8:34הַמַּצִּ֥יל · who had delivered
    The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
  30. Judges 9:17וַיַּצֵּ֥ל · to deliver
    …for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
  31. Judges 10:15הַצִּילֵ֥נוּ · deliver us today
    “We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”
  32. Judges 11:26הִצַּלְתֶּ֖ם · take them back
    For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?
  33. Judges 18:28מַצִּ֜יל · to deliver them
    There was no one to deliver them, because the city was far from Sidon and had no alliance with anyone; it was in a valley near Beth-rehob. And the Danites rebuilt the city and lived there.
  34. 1 Samuel 4:8יַצִּילֵ֔נוּ · will deliver us
    Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
  35. 1 Samuel 7:3וְיַצֵּ֥ל · And He will deliver
    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
  36. 1 Samuel 7:14הִצִּ֥יל · also delivered
    The cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.
  37. 1 Samuel 10:18וָאַצִּ֤יל · and I rescued
    …and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
  38. 1 Samuel 12:10הַצִּילֵ֛נוּ · deliver us
    Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’
  39. 1 Samuel 12:11וַיַּצֵּ֨ל · and He delivered
    So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
  40. 1 Samuel 12:21יַצִּ֖ילוּ · or deliver [you]
    Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
  41. 1 Samuel 14:48וַיַּצֵּ֥ל · delivering
    He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of its plunderers.
  42. 1 Samuel 17:35וְהִצַּ֣לְתִּי · and delivered [the lamb]
    I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.
  43. 1 Samuel 17:37הִצִּלַ֜נִי · delivered me; יַצִּילֵ֔נִי · will deliver me
    David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”
  44. 1 Samuel 26:24וְיַצִּלֵ֖נִי · and rescue me
    As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and rescue me from all trouble.”
  45. 1 Samuel 30:8וְהַצֵּ֥ל · and rescue the captives; תַּצִּֽיל׃
    …and David inquired of the LORD: “Should I pursue these raiders? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” the LORD replied, “for you will surely overtake them and rescue the captives.”
  46. 1 Samuel 30:18וַיַּצֵּ֣ל · recovered
    So David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.