Definition
a primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
Traditional renderings: 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.
Traditional renderings: 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.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders נָטָה:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
214 total
- Genesis 12:8וַיֵּ֣ט · and pitchedFrom there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
- Genesis 24:14הַטִּי־ · let downNow may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
- Genesis 26:25וַיֶּט־ · and he pitchedSo Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.
- Genesis 33:19נָֽטָה־ · he pitchedAnd the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
- Genesis 35:21וַיֵּ֣ט · and pitchedIsrael again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.
- Genesis 38:1וַיֵּ֛ט · and settledAbout that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
- Genesis 38:16וַיֵּ֨ט · he went overNot realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
- Genesis 39:21וַיֵּ֥ט · and extended…the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
- Genesis 49:15וַיֵּ֤ט · so he bentHe saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
- Exodus 6:6נְטוּיָ֔ה · with an outstretchedTherefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
- Exodus 7:5בִּנְטֹתִ֥י · when I stretch outAnd the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”
- Exodus 7:19וּנְטֵֽה־ · and stretch outAnd the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and all the reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.”
- Exodus 8:5נְטֵ֤ה · Stretch outAnd the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”
- Exodus 8:6וַיֵּ֤ט · stretched outSo Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:16נְטֵ֣ה · Stretch outThen the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”
- Exodus 8:17וַיֵּט֩ · stretched outThis they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 9:22נְטֵ֤ה · Stretch outThen the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.”
- Exodus 9:23וַיֵּ֨ט · stretched outSo Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 10:12נְטֵ֨ה · Stretch outThen the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”
- Exodus 10:13וַיֵּ֨ט · stretched outSo Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:21נְטֵ֤ה · Stretch outThen the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
- Exodus 10:22וַיֵּ֥ט · stretched outSo Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.
- Exodus 14:16וּנְטֵ֧ה · and stretch outAnd as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
- Exodus 14:21וַיֵּ֨ט · stretched outThen Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
- Exodus 14:26נְטֵ֥ה · Stretch outThen the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
- Exodus 14:27וַיֵּט֩ · stretched outSo Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.
- Exodus 15:12נָטִ֙יתָ֙ · You stretched outYou stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them up.
- Exodus 23:2לִנְטֹ֛ת · by siding; לְהַטֹּֽת׃ · pervert justiceYou shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
- Exodus 23:6תַטֶּ֛ה · denyYou shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.
- Exodus 33:7וְנָֽטָה־ · and pitchNow Moses used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp.
- Numbers 20:17נִטֶּה֙ · turnPlease let us pass through your land. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
- Numbers 20:21וַיֵּ֥ט · turned awaySo Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.
- Numbers 21:15נָטָ֖ה · extend…even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”
- Numbers 21:22נִטֶּה֙ · turn aside into“Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
- Numbers 22:23וַתֵּ֤ט · turned; לְהַטֹּתָ֖הּ · to return herWhen the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to return her to the path.
- Numbers 22:26לִנְט֖וֹת · to turnAnd the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or left.
- Numbers 22:33וַתֵּ֣ט · and turned away; נָטְתָ֣ה · turned awayThe donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away, then by now I would surely have killed you and let her live.”
- Numbers 24:6נִטָּ֔יוּ · They spread outThey spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
- Deuteronomy 4:34נְטוּיָ֔ה · and an outstretchedOr has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 5:15נְטוּיָ֑֔ה · and an outstretchedRemember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 7:19הַנְּטוּיָ֔ה · and outstretched…the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
- Deuteronomy 9:29הַנְּטוּיָֽה׃פ · and outstretchedBut they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”
- Deuteronomy 11:2הַנְּטוּיָֽה׃ · and His outstretchedKnow this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
- Deuteronomy 16:19תַטֶּ֣ה · denyDo not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
- Deuteronomy 24:17תַטֶּ֔ה · denyDo not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
- Deuteronomy 26:8נְטוּיָ֔ה · and an outstretchedThen the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.
- Deuteronomy 27:19מַטֶּ֛ה · he who withholds‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’