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. Amos 2:7 יַטּ֑וּ ya.Tu · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the same maiden, to profane my holy name:

  2. Amos 2:8 יַטּ֔וּ ya.Tu · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.

  3. Amos 5:12 הִטּֽוּ׃ hi.Tu · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins—ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.

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