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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. 1 Samuel 18:8נָתְנ֤וּ · They have ascribed; נָתְנ֖וּ · but only
    And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
  2. 1 Samuel 18:17אֶתֶּן־ · I will give her
    Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
  3. 1 Samuel 18:19תֵּ֛ת · to give; נִתְּנָ֛ה · was given
    So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.
  4. 1 Samuel 18:21אֶתְּנֶ֤נָּה · I will give her
    “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
  5. 1 Samuel 18:27וַיִּתֶּן־ · gave
    David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.
  6. 1 Samuel 20:40וַיִּתֵּ֤ן · gave
    Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”
  7. 1 Samuel 21:3תְּנָ֣ה · Give [me]
    Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
  8. 1 Samuel 21:6וַיִּתֶּן־ · gave
    So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
  9. 1 Samuel 21:9תְּנֶ֥נָּה · give it
    The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
  10. 1 Samuel 22:7יִתֵּ֤ן · giving
    Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
  11. 1 Samuel 22:10נָ֣תַן · and gave; נָ֥תַן · He also gave
    Ahimelech inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
  12. 1 Samuel 22:13בְּתִתְּךָ֨ · You gave
    And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
  13. 1 Samuel 23:4נֹתֵ֛ן · will deliver
    Once again, David inquired of the LORD, and the LORD answered him: “Go at once to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
  14. 1 Samuel 23:14נְתָנ֥וֹ · deliver [David]
    And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
  15. 1 Samuel 24:4נֹתֵ֤ן · will deliver
    So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
  16. 1 Samuel 24:7נְתָנָ֖ם · let them
    With these words David restrained his men, and he did not let them rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and went on his way.
  17. 1 Samuel 24:10נְתָנְךָ֩ · delivered you
    Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’
  18. 1 Samuel 25:8תְּנָה־ · give
    Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son David.’”
  19. 1 Samuel 25:11וְנָֽתַתִּי֙ · and give them
    Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
  20. 1 Samuel 25:27וְנִתְּנָה֙ · be given
    Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.
  21. 1 Samuel 25:44נָתַ֛ן · had given
    But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
  22. 1 Samuel 26:23נְתָנְךָ֨ · delivered you
    May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not extend my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
  23. 1 Samuel 27:5יִתְּנוּ־ · let me be assigned
    Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
  24. 1 Samuel 27:6וַיִּתֶּן־ · gave
    That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.
  25. 1 Samuel 28:17וַֽיִּתְּנָ֖הּ · and given it
    He has done exactly what He spoke through me: The LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor David.
  26. 1 Samuel 28:19וְיִתֵּ֣ן · will deliver; יִתֵּ֥ן · will deliver
    Moreover, the LORD will deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. And the LORD will deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.”
  27. 1 Samuel 30:11וַיִּתְּנוּ־ · They gave
    Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
  28. 1 Samuel 30:12וַיִּתְּנוּ־
    …a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
  29. 1 Samuel 30:22נִתֵּ֣ן · share with them
    …but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
  30. 1 Samuel 30:23נָתַ֨ן · has given; וַיִּתֵּ֗ן · and delivered
    But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us.
  31. 2 Samuel 3:14תְּנָ֤ה · Give
    Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
  32. 2 Samuel 4:8וַיִּתֵּ֣ן · has granted
    They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”
  33. 2 Samuel 4:10לְתִתִּי־ · was his reward
    …when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
  34. 2 Samuel 5:19הֲתִתְּנֵ֖ם · Will You deliver them; נָתֹ֥ן · I will surely deliver; אֶתֵּ֛ן
    So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go up,” replied the LORD, “for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
  35. 2 Samuel 9:9נָתַ֖תִּי · I have given
    Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.
  36. 2 Samuel 10:10נָתַ֕ן · he placed
    And he placed the rest of the troops under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.
  37. 2 Samuel 11:16וַיִּתֵּן֙ · he assigned
    So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.
  38. 2 Samuel 12:8וָאֶתְּנָ֨ה · I gave; וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה · I gave
    I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.
  39. 2 Samuel 12:11וְנָתַתִּ֖י · and give them
    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
  40. 2 Samuel 14:7תְּנִ֣י׀ · Hand over
    Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
  41. 2 Samuel 16:8וַיִּתֵּ֤ן · has delivered
    The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
  42. 2 Samuel 18:9וַיֻּתַּן֙ · so that he was suspended
    Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.