Definition

a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing; mental, desire

Etymology

from H5375 (נָשָׂא);

Where the KJV renders it

• burden
• carry away
• prophecy
• they set
• song
• tribute

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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