nasa or nasah: to lift, carry, take ---- Makes sense, right? Sure. They "take up" actornauts, er, astronauts. Fine. Original Word: נָשָׂא Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: nasa or nasah Phonetic Spelling: (naw-saw') Short Definition: lifted NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin a prim. root Let's look at an alternative definition now. nasha: to beguile, deceive ---- Original Word: נָשָׁא Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: nasha Phonetic Spelling: (naw-shaw') Short Definition: deceive NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin a prim. root Definition: come deceitfully (1), deceive (
, deceived (3), deluded (1), utterly deceived (1).