נָטָה
nâṭâh · naw-taw'
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application
- to stretch or spread out
- by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection)
- used in a great variety of application
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [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.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to surround and contain › to reveal, behold
The seed, life continuing that works to surround and contain that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָטָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
214 occurrences · 214 OT · 0 NT · 140 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- incline10 · 13%
- and pitched5 · 6%
- stretched forth5 · 6%
- stretch out5 · 6%
- stretched out5 · 6%
- and with a stretched out4 · 5%
- bow down4 · 5%
- is stretched out still4 · 5%
- turned away3 · 4%
- not, nor inclined3 · 4%
- thou shalt not wrest2 · 3%
- is stretched out2 · 3%
- stretch forth2 · 3%
- we will not turn2 · 3%
- and stretch out2 · 3%
- gone2 · 3%
- he bowed2 · 3%
- had pitched2 · 3%
- turn2 · 3%
- and he bowed2 · 3%
- and by a stretched out2 · 3%
- nor inclined2 · 3%
- to turn2 · 3%
- to turn aside2 · 3%
- and spread2 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.