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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. Ezra 8:36וַֽיִּתְּנ֣וּ׀ · They also delivered
    They also delivered the king’s edicts to the royal satraps and governors of the region west of the Euphrates, who proceeded to assist the people and the house of God.
  2. Ezra 9:7נִתַּ֡נּוּ · have been delivered
    From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and subjected to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.
  3. Ezra 9:8וְלָתֶת־ · and to give; וּלְתִתֵּ֛נוּ · has given us
    But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.
  4. Ezra 9:9לָֽתֶת־ · giving; וְלָֽתֶת־ · and giving
    Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
  5. Ezra 9:12תִּתְּנ֣וּ · give
    Now, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and may eat the good things of the land, leaving it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’
  6. Ezra 9:13וְנָתַ֥תָּה · and have given
    After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),
  7. Ezra 10:11תְּנ֥וּ · make
    Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives.”
  8. Ezra 10:19וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ · They pledged
    They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
  9. Nehemiah 1:11וּתְנֵ֣הוּ · and grant him
    O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)
  10. Nehemiah 2:1וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה · and gave
    Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,
  11. Nehemiah 2:6וָֽאֶתְּנָ֥ה · and I set
    Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.
  12. Nehemiah 2:7יִתְּנוּ־ · be given
    I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
  13. Nehemiah 2:8יִתֶּן־ · he will give; וַיִּתֶּן־ · granted
    And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
  14. Nehemiah 2:9וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה · and gave
    Then I went to the governors west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.
  15. Nehemiah 2:12נֹתֵ֣ן · had laid
    I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.
  16. Nehemiah 4:4וּתְנֵ֥ם · and let them be taken
    Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
  17. Nehemiah 5:7וָאֶתֵּ֥ן · So I called
    …and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
  18. Nehemiah 7:5וַיִּתֵּ֤ן · put it
    Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
  19. Nehemiah 7:70נָתְנ֖וּ · contributed; נָתַ֣ן · gave
    Some of the heads of the families contributed to the project. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments.
  20. Nehemiah 7:71נָֽתְנוּ֙ · gave
    And some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the project 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
  21. Nehemiah 7:72נָתְנוּ֮ · gave [a total of]
    The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.
  22. Nehemiah 9:8לָתֵ֡ת · to give; לָתֵ֣ת · to give it
    You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
  23. Nehemiah 9:10וַ֠תִּתֵּן · You performed
    You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.
  24. Nehemiah 9:13וַתִּתֵּ֨ן · You gave
    You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
  25. Nehemiah 9:15נָתַ֤תָּה · You gave; לָתֵ֥ת · to give
    In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them.
  26. Nehemiah 9:17וַיִּתְּנוּ־ · and appointed
    They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
  27. Nehemiah 9:20נָתַ֖תָּ · You gave; נָתַ֥תָּה · and You gave
    You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
  28. Nehemiah 9:22וַתִּתֵּ֨ן · You gave
    You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
  29. Nehemiah 9:24וַֽתִּתְּנֵ֖ם · You delivered
    So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.
  30. Nehemiah 9:27וַֽתִּתְּנֵם֙ · So You delivered them; תִּתֵּ֤ן · You gave
    So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.
  31. Nehemiah 9:29וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ · They turned
    You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They turned a stubborn shoulder; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.
  32. Nehemiah 9:30וַֽתִּתְּנֵ֔ם · so You gave them
    You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
  33. Nehemiah 9:35נָתַ֣תָּ · You had given; נָתַ֥תָּ · You had set
    For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.
  34. Nehemiah 9:36נָתַ֣תָּה · You gave
    So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!
  35. Nehemiah 9:37נָתַ֥תָּה · You have set
    Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
  36. Nehemiah 10:29נִתְּנָ֔ה · given
    …hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
  37. Nehemiah 10:30נִתֵּ֥ן · give
    We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.
  38. Nehemiah 10:32לָתֵ֥ת · to contribute
    We also place ourselves under the obligation to contribute a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:
  39. Nehemiah 12:47נֹֽתְנִ֛ים · contributed
    So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for the descendants of Aaron.
  40. Nehemiah 13:4נָת֖וּן · had been put in charge of
    Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
  41. Nehemiah 13:5נֹ֠תְנִים · stored
    …and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.