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. Numbers 20:17 נִטֶּה֙ ni.Teh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.

  2. Numbers 20:21 וַיֵּ֥ט vai.Yet · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

  3. Numbers 21:15 נָטָ֖ה na.Tah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And the slope of the valleys That inclineth toward the dwelling of Ar, And leaneth upon the border of Moab.

  4. Numbers 21:22 נִטֶּה֙ ni.Teh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.

  5. Numbers 22:23 וַתֵּ֤ט va.Tet · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.

  6. Numbers 22:23 לְהַטֹּתָ֖הּ le.ha.to.Tah · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.

  7. Numbers 22:26 לִנְט֖וֹת lin.Tot · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And the angel of Jehovah went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

  8. Numbers 22:33 וַתֵּ֣ט va.Tet · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.

  9. Numbers 22:33 נָטְתָ֣ה na.te.Tah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.

  10. Numbers 24:6 נִטָּ֔יוּ ni.Ta.yu · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters.

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