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. Lamentations 2:8 נָ֣טָה Na.tah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

  2. Lamentations 3:35 לְהַטּוֹת֙ le.ha.tOt · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

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