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. Joshua 8:18 נְ֠טֵה Ne.teh · A command to you: simple action

    And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

  2. Joshua 8:18 וַיֵּ֧ט vai.Yet · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

  3. Joshua 8:19 כִּנְט֣וֹת kin.Tot · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and set the city on fire.

  4. Joshua 8:26 נָטָ֖ה na.Tah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  5. Joshua 24:23 וְהַטּוּ֙ ve.ha.Tu · A command to all of you: causing it

    Now therefore put away, said he, the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.

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