Nacag means “retreat” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5253 — hyperoion in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5253 נָסַג (nacag) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. nacag (naw-sag') v. 1. to retreat [a primitive root] It has 9 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include remove, take, departing, and away. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
nacag (naw-sag') v. 1. to retreat [a primitive root] KJV: departing away, remove, take (hold), turn away.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5253. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to remove
Usage: 1) to move away, backslide, move, go, turn back 1a) (Qal) to backslide, prove recreant to 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to displace, move back 1b2) to remove, carry away 1d) (Hophal) to be driven back, be moved back
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nacag, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
9 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5253.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5253, grouped by book.
Nacag (Strong's H5253) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "retreat". nacag (naw-sag') v. 1. to retreat [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's H5253 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5253 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as remove, take, departing, and away. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.