נָתַן

na.tanto give: giveHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb2,012 occurrences38 books1,817 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Traditional renderings: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, × avenge, × be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, × doubtless, × without fail, fasten, frame, × get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), × have, × indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), lie, lift up, make, O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, × pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), sing, slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, × surely, × take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, weep, willingly, withdraw, would (to) God, yield.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders נָתַן:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

2,012 total
  1. Judges 3:28נָתְנ֥וּ · allow
    “Follow me,” he told them, “for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and they did not allow anyone to cross over.
  2. Judges 4:7וּנְתַתִּ֖יהוּ · and I will deliver him
    And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.’”
  3. Judges 4:14נָתַ֨ן · has delivered
    Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
  4. Judges 5:25נָתָ֑נָה · [and] she gave him
    He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.
  5. Judges 6:1וַיִּתְּנֵ֧ם · delivered them
    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
  6. Judges 6:9וָאֶתְּנָ֥ה · and gave
    I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
  7. Judges 6:13וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֖נוּ · and delivered us
    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
  8. Judges 7:2מִתִּתִּ֥י · for Me to deliver
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
  9. Judges 7:7וְנָתַתִּ֥י · and deliver
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”
  10. Judges 7:9נְתַתִּ֖יו · I have delivered it
    That night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
  11. Judges 7:14נָתַ֤ן · has delivered
    His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”
  12. Judges 7:15נָתַ֧ן · has delivered
    When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”
  13. Judges 7:16וַיִּתֵּ֨ן · and gave
    And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.
  14. Judges 8:3נָתַ֨ן · has delivered
    God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.
  15. Judges 8:5תְּנוּ־ · give
    So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
  16. Judges 8:6נִתֵּ֥ן · we should give
    But the leaders of Succoth asked, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your army?”
  17. Judges 8:7בְּתֵ֧ת · has delivered
    “Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”
  18. Judges 8:15נִתֵּ֛ן · we should give
    And Gideon went to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your weary men?’”
  19. Judges 8:24וּתְנוּ־ · give
    Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
  20. Judges 8:25נָת֣וֹן · We will give [them] gladly; נִתֵּ֑ן
    “We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
  21. Judges 9:4וַיִּתְּנוּ־ · So they gave
    So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
  22. Judges 9:29יִתֵּ֜ן
    If only this people were under my authority, I would remove Abimelech; I would say to him, ‘Muster your army and come out!’”
  23. Judges 11:9וְנָתַ֧ן · gives them
    But Jephthah asked them, “If you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, will I really be your leader?”
  24. Judges 11:21וַ֠יִּתֵּן · delivered
    Then the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,
  25. Judges 11:30נָת֥וֹן · indeed; תִּתֵּ֛ן · You will deliver
    Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,
  26. Judges 11:32וַיִתְּנֵ֥ם · delivered them
    So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his hand.
  27. Judges 12:3וַיִּתְּנֵ֥ם · delivered them
    When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”
  28. Judges 13:1וַיִּתְּנֵ֧ם · delivered them
    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
  29. Judges 14:9וַיִּתֵּ֥ן · he gave
    So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
  30. Judges 14:12וְנָתַתִּ֤י · I will give
    “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
  31. Judges 14:13וּנְתַתֶּ֨ם · must give
    But if you cannot solve it, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they replied. “Let us hear it.”
  32. Judges 14:19וַיִּתֵּן֙ · and gave
    Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave their clothes to those who had solved the riddle. And burning with anger, Samson returned to his father’s house,
  33. Judges 15:1נְתָנ֥וֹ · let him
    Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
  34. Judges 15:2וָאֶתְּנֶ֖נָּה · so I gave her
    “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
  35. Judges 15:6וַֽיִּתְּנָ֖הּ · was given
    “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
  36. Judges 15:12לְתִתְּךָ֖ · and hand you over to
    But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”
  37. Judges 15:13וּנְתַנּ֣וּךָ · and hand you over to
    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
  38. Judges 15:18נָתַ֣תָּ · have accomplished
    And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
  39. Judges 16:5נִתַּן־ · will give
    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
  40. Judges 16:23נָתַ֤ן · has delivered
    Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
  41. Judges 16:24נָתַ֨ן · has delivered
    And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”
  42. Judges 17:4וַתִּתְּנֵ֣הוּ · and gave them
    So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
  43. Judges 17:10אֶֽתֶּן־ · will give
    “Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” So the Levite went in
  44. Judges 18:10נְתָנָ֥הּ · has delivered it
    When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
  45. Judges 20:13תְּנוּ֩ · Hand over
    Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.
  46. Judges 20:28אֶתְּנֶ֥נּוּ · I will deliver them
    …and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”
  47. Judges 20:36וַיִּתְּנ֨וּ · had retreated
    Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
  48. Judges 21:1יִתֵּ֥ן · in marriage
    Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”