Rory
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Many flat earthers and space deniers believe that NASA not only stands for the "National Aeronautics and Space Administration" but, in Hebrew, means "to deceive" or "lie", for example:
The Hebrew word that we pronounce as "NASA" (or, more correctly, "na-sar") is actually the slightly different "נָשָׂא", which is a primitive verb root meaning "to lift, bear up, carry, or take":
In the King James translation of the Bible, it is used 654 times in 611 verses, and not one of those uses is related to "deception":
The primitive verb root which in Hebrew means "to beguile" or "to deceive" is "נָשָׁא", as quoted above, which is transliterated as nasha' (pronounced "na-shar"). They are easily confused, not only in English, but for those not familiar with Hebrew: the only difference being the location of the dot above the middle letter ("shin").
A dot above the right hand side of "shin" represents the sound "sh" (called "shin dot") while a dot above the left represents the sound "s" (called "sin dot").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_(letter)#Sin_and_Shin_Dot
"נָשָׁא" (nasha') is used in the KJV in the 16 times, across 15 different verses.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5377&t=KJV
https://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/kjv/nasha.html
A dot above the right hand side of "shin" represents the sound "sh" (called "shin dot") while a dot above the left represents the sound "s" (called "sin dot").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_(letter)#Sin_and_Shin_Dot
"נָשָׁא" (nasha') is used in the KJV in the 16 times, across 15 different verses.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5377&t=KJV
https://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/kjv/nasha.html
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