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Words
נָצַל H5337
- Home gloss
- snatch (hiphil)
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- take away / take away
- Note
- To snatch from a grasp, and so to rescue: Elohim snatches Laban's livestock (31:9, 16); "snatch me from the hand of my brother" (32:12); "as the shepherd snatches from the lion's mouth" (Amos 3:12). "Deliver" is מָגַן's
- Rulings
- 2, 20
Occurrences (6)
- 31:9 And Elohim snatched the livestock of your father and gave it to me.
- 31:16 For all the riches that Elohim snatched from our father, it is ours and our sons'. And now, all that Elohim has said to you, do."
- 32:12 Snatch me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I am fearing him, lest he come and strike me, mother upon sons.
- 32:31 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen elohim face to face, and my soul has been snatched out.
- 37:21 And Reuben heard, and he snatched him from their hand, and he said, "We will not strike him in the soul."
- 37:22 And Reuben said to them, "Do not spill blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and a hand do not send against him"—so that he might snatch him from their hand, to return him to his father.