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
- Isaiah 14:26הַנְּטוּיָ֖ה · stretched outThis is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
- Isaiah 14:27הַנְּטוּיָ֖ה · is outstretchedThe LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
- Isaiah 23:11נָטָ֣ה · [The LORD] has stretched outThe LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
- Isaiah 29:21וַיַּטּ֥וּ · of justice…those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
- Isaiah 30:11הַטּ֖וּ · turn offGet out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
- Isaiah 31:3יַטֶּ֣ה · stretches outBut the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
- Isaiah 34:11וְנָטָ֥ה · The LORD will stretch outThe desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
- Isaiah 37:17הַטֵּ֨ה · InclineIncline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
- Isaiah 40:22הַנּוֹטֶ֤ה · He stretches outHe sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
- Isaiah 42:5וְנ֣וֹטֵיהֶ֔ם · and stretched them outThis is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
- Isaiah 44:13נָ֣טָה · extendsThe woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
- Isaiah 44:20הִטָּ֑הוּ · has led him astrayHe feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
- Isaiah 44:24נֹטֶ֤ה · who alone stretched outThus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
- Isaiah 45:12נָט֣וּ · that stretched outIt is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
- Isaiah 51:13נוֹטֶ֣ה · who stretched outBut you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
- Isaiah 54:2יַטּ֖וּ · stretch out“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.
- Isaiah 55:3הַטּ֤וּ · InclineIncline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
- Isaiah 66:12נֹטֶֽה־ · I will extendFor this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.
- Jeremiah 5:25הִטּוּ־ · have divertedYour iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
- Jeremiah 6:4יִנָּט֖וּ · grow long‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.
- Jeremiah 6:12אַטֶּ֧ה · I will stretch outTheir houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 7:24הִטּ֣וּ · inclineYet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- Jeremiah 7:26הִטּ֖וּ · inclineYet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
- Jeremiah 10:12נָטָ֥ה · and stretched outThe LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
- Jeremiah 10:20נֹטֶ֥ה · to pitchMy tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
- Jeremiah 11:8הִטּ֣וּ · or inclineYet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
- Jeremiah 14:8נָטָ֥ה · who stays but a nightO Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
- Jeremiah 15:6וָאַ֨ט · So I will stretch outYou have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
- Jeremiah 17:23הִטּ֖וּ · or inclineYet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.
- Jeremiah 21:5נְטוּיָ֖ה · with an outstretchedAnd I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.
- Jeremiah 25:4הִטִּיתֶ֥ם · inclinedAnd the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.
- Jeremiah 27:5הַנְּטוּיָ֑ה · and outstretchedBy My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
- Jeremiah 32:17הַנְּטוּיָ֑ה · and outstretched“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
- Jeremiah 32:21נְטוּיָ֔ה · and an outstretchedYou brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.
- Jeremiah 34:14הִטּ֖וּ · or inclineEvery seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
- Jeremiah 35:15הִטִּיתֶם֙ · inclinedAgain and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
- Jeremiah 43:10וְנָטָ֥ה · and he will spreadThen tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
- Jeremiah 44:5הִטּ֣וּ · or inclineBut they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.
- Jeremiah 51:15נָטָ֥ה · and stretched outThe LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
- Jeremiah 51:25וְנָטִ֨יתִי · I will stretch out“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
- Lamentations 2:8נָ֣טָה · He stretched outThe LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
- Lamentations 3:35לְהַטּוֹת֙ · to deny…to deny a man justice before the Most High,
- Ezekiel 1:22נָט֥וּי · Spread outSpread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
- Ezekiel 6:14וְנָטִ֤יתִי · I will stretch outI will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 14:9וְנָטִ֤יתִי · and I will stretch outBut if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.
- Ezekiel 14:13וְנָטִ֤יתִי · and I stretch out“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
- Ezekiel 16:27נָטִ֤יתִי · I stretched outTherefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.
- Ezekiel 20:33נְטוּיָ֛ה · an outstretchedAs surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath I will rule over you.
- Ezekiel 20:34נְטוּיָ֔ה · an outstretchedWith a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered.
- Ezekiel 25:7נָטִ֨יתִי · stretch out…therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’