Strong’s H5253 · Hebrew

נָסַג
nâçag
naw-sag'

Definition

to retreat

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • departing away
  • remove
  • take (hold)
  • turn away

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.