נָטָה

na.tah · to stretch

Hebrew · Strong's H5186 · Verb · Sounds like: naw-taw' · 214 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application; [phrase] afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
נָטָה 215 vb. stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend
Qal
1.
a. stretch out, extend, hand, rod
b. stretch line and plummet
c. = offer
2. Spread out, i.e. pitch, tent
3. Bend, turn, incline
Niph. be stretched out
Hiph.
1. rarely stretch out, hand
2. rarely spread out cloth on rock
3. usu. turn, incline

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Samuel 2:19 נָטָ֣ה na.Tah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

  2. 2 Samuel 2:21 נְטֵ֤ה ne.Teh · A command to you: simple action

    And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

  3. 2 Samuel 3:27 וַיַּטֵּ֤הוּ vai.ya.Te.hu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

  4. 2 Samuel 6:10 וַיַּטֵּ֣הוּ vai.ya.Te.hu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So David would not remove the ark of Jehovah unto him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

  5. 2 Samuel 6:17 נָטָה־ na.tah- · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And they brought in the ark of Jehovah, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah.

  6. 2 Samuel 16:22 וַיַּטּ֧וּ vai.ya.Tu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

  7. 2 Samuel 19:14 וַיַּ֛ט vai.Yat · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent unto the king, saying, Return thou, and all thy servants.

  8. 2 Samuel 21:10 וַתַּטֵּ֨הוּ va.ta.Te.hu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

  9. 2 Samuel 22:10 וַיֵּ֥ט vai.Yet · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.

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