נָטַשׁ
nâṭash · naw-tash'
properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)
- properly, to pound, i.e. smite
- by implication, (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse
- also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer.
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
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to surround and contain › to consume, to destroy
The seed, life continuing that works to surround and contain that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָטַשׁ 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
40 occurrences · 40 OT · 0 NT · 36 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and spread3 · 10%
- and forsake2 · 7%
- and have left2 · 7%
- and hast not suffered1 · 3%
- and lie1 · 3%
- and let them fall1 · 3%
- with fatness; then he forsook1 · 3%
- hath forsaken1 · 3%
- and when they joined1 · 3%
- hath left1 · 3%
- will not forsake1 · 3%
- and left1 · 3%
- left1 · 3%
- hither? and with whom hast thou left1 · 3%
- behold, they were spread abroad1 · 3%
- us, nor forsake1 · 3%
- and i will forsake1 · 3%
- and that we would leave1 · 3%
- leave1 · 3%
- so that he forsook1 · 3%
- will not cast off1 · 3%
- therefore leave off1 · 3%
- therefore thou hast forsaken1 · 3%
- are stretched out1 · 3%
- the drawn1 · 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.