Psalm 15:3:7Ps.15.3.W7TAB
לֹא־נָשָׂ֥א
lonasa
“he does not lift up”
- Transliteration
- LO-na-SA
- Extended
- LOH-naa-SA
- IPA
- /loː.naˈsaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- he does not lift up
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
LO-na-SA
- phraseyour reading level
LO-na-SA al-ke-RO-vo
- clause
ve-kher-PA LO-na-SA al-ke-RO-vo
- sentence
LO-ra-GAL al-le-SHO-no LO-a-SA le-RE-e-hu ra-A ve-kher-PA LO-na-SA al-ke-RO-vo
Exegesis
The psalmist constructs a tripartite parallelism with the negation particle lo {לֹא־ | lō} ‘not’ initiating each clause to underscore moral boundaries.
The third clause uses ve {וְ־ | wə-} ‘and’ plus cherpah {חֶרְפָּה | ḥer-pāh} ‘reproach’ and nasa {נָשָׂ֥א | nā-sāʾ} ‘he carried’ with al {עַל־ | ʿal} ‘upon’ and kerovo {קְרֹֽבוֹ | qə-rō-ḇō} ‘his close one’, an idiom for spreading shame. The repeated perfect forms coupled with lo deliver a rhythmic insistence on integrity. English renderings preserve the Hebrew sequence and idiomatic sense by using present-tense prohibitions and equivalent expressions.
In context — Psalm 15:3
He does not slander with his tongue, he does no evil to his neighbor, and he does not carry reproach against his close one.
About this coordinate
Psalm 15:3:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Psalm 15:3, so the Hebrew word לֹא־נָשָׂ֥א (lonasa) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Ps.15.3.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Ps.15.3.W7.S1) and character.