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. Judges 4:11 וַיֵּ֣ט vai.Yet · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

  2. Judges 9:3 וַיֵּ֤ט vai.Yet · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.

  3. Judges 16:30 וַיֵּ֣ט vai.Yet · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life.

  4. Judges 19:8 נְט֣וֹת ne.Tot · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the damsel's father said, Strengthen thy heart, I pray thee, and tarry ye until the day declineth; and they did eat, both of them.

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