נשא ראש

Literally, “take the sum [of all people]”.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /naˈsa ˈʁoʃ/

נָשָׂא רֹאשׁ • (nasá rósh) (pa'al construction)

1. (Biblical Hebrew) to take a census, to number
   • Tanach, Numbers 1:2, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     שְׂאוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ כׇּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם לְבֵית אֲבֹתָם בְּמִסְפַּר שֵׁמוֹת כׇּל־זָכָר לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם׃

     Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their polls.

   • Tanach, Numbers 31:49, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה עֲבָדֶיךָ נָשְׂאוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ אַנְשֵׁי הַמִּלְחָמָה אֲשֶׁר בְּיָדֵנוּ וְלֹא־נִפְקַד מִמֶּנּוּ אִישׁ׃

     And they said unto Moses: Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.

• נָשָׂא מִסְפָּר (nasá mispár)

• H5375 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible