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.
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
Occurrences
2,012 total
- Exodus 2:9אֶתֵּ֣ן · will payPharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
- Exodus 2:21וַיִּתֵּ֛ן · and he gaveMoses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
- Exodus 3:19יִתֵּ֥ן · allowBut I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.
- Exodus 3:21וְנָתַתִּ֛י · And I will grantAnd I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.
- Exodus 5:7לָתֵ֨ת · supply“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
- Exodus 5:10נֹתֵ֥ן · givingSo the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.
- Exodus 5:16נִתָּן֙ · has been givenNo straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
- Exodus 5:18יִנָּתֵ֣ן · will be given; תִּתֵּֽנּוּ׃ · yet you must deliverNow get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
- Exodus 5:21לָֽתֶת־ · you have placed“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”
- Exodus 6:4לָתֵ֥ת · to giveI also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
- Exodus 6:8לָתֵ֣ת · to give; וְנָתַתִּ֨י · I will giveAnd I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”
- Exodus 7:1נְתַתִּ֥יךָ · I have madeThe LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
- Exodus 7:4וְנָתַתִּ֥י · Then I will layPharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:9תְּנ֥וּ · Perform“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”
- Exodus 9:23נָתַ֤ן · sentSo 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 10:25תִּתֵּ֥ן · provide usBut Moses replied, “You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.
- Exodus 11:3וַיִּתֵּ֧ן · gaveAnd the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.
- Exodus 12:7וְנָֽתְנ֛וּ · and putThey are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
- Exodus 12:23יִתֵּן֙ · allowWhen the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
- Exodus 12:25יִתֵּ֧ן · will giveWhen you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.
- Exodus 12:36נָתַ֨ן · gaveAnd the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.
- Exodus 13:5לָ֣תֶת · that He would giveAnd when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.
- Exodus 13:11וּנְתָנָ֖הּ · and gives itAnd after the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as He swore to you and your fathers,
- Exodus 16:3יִתֵּ֨ן“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
- Exodus 16:8בְּתֵ֣ת · will giveAnd Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”
- Exodus 16:15נָתַ֧ן · has givenWhen the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
- Exodus 16:29נָתַ֣ן · has given; נֹתֵ֥ן · will giveUnderstand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”
- Exodus 16:33וְתֶן־ · and fill itSo Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
- Exodus 17:2תְּנוּ־ · GiveSo the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
- Exodus 18:25וַיִּתֵּ֥ן · and madeSo Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
- Exodus 20:12נֹתֵ֥ן · is givingHonor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Exodus 21:4יִתֶּן־ · givesIf his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
- Exodus 21:19יִתֵּ֖ן · he must compensate…then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.
- Exodus 21:22וְנָתַ֖ן · and as the court allowsIf men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
- Exodus 21:23וְנָתַתָּ֥ה · then you must requireBut if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
- Exodus 21:30וְנָתַן֙ · by payingIf payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
- Exodus 21:32יִתֵּן֙ · [the owner] must payIf the ox gores a manservant or maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.
- Exodus 22:7יִתֵּן֩ · givesIf a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
- Exodus 22:10יִתֵּן֩ · givesIf a man gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching,
- Exodus 22:17לְתִתָּ֣הּ · to give herIf her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
- Exodus 22:29תִּתֶּן־ · You are to giveYou must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
- Exodus 22:30תִּתְּנוֹ־ · you are to give themYou shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.
- Exodus 23:27וְנָתַתִּ֧י · turnI will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.
- Exodus 23:31אֶתֵּ֣ן · I will deliverAnd I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
- Exodus 24:12וְאֶתְּנָ֨ה · so that I may giveThen the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
- Exodus 25:12וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ה · and fasten themCast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.
- Exodus 25:16וְנָתַתָּ֖ · And placeAnd place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.