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
- Leviticus 27:23וְנָתַ֤ן · and [the man] shall pay…then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.
- Numbers 3:9וְנָתַתָּה֙ · Assign; נְתוּנִ֨ם · have been given exclusively; נְתוּנִ֥םAssign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been given exclusively to him from among the Israelites.
- Numbers 3:48וְנָתַתָּ֣ה · GiveGive the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.”
- Numbers 3:51וַיִּתֵּ֨ן · gaveAnd Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons in obedience to the word of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
- Numbers 4:6וְנָתְנ֣וּ · They are to placeThey are to place over this a covering of fine leather, spread a solid blue cloth over it, and insert its poles.
- Numbers 4:7וְנָתְנ֣וּ · and placeOver the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and place the plates and cups on it, along with the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread offering is to remain on it.
- Numbers 4:10וְנָתְנ֤וּ · Then they shall wrap; וְנָתְנ֖וּ · and putThen they shall wrap it and all its utensils inside a covering of fine leather and put it on the carrying frame.
- Numbers 4:12וְנָֽתְנוּ֙ · place them; וְנָתְנ֖וּ · and put themThey are to take all the utensils for serving in the sanctuary, place them in a blue cloth, cover them with fine leather, and put them on the carrying frame.
- Numbers 4:14וְנָתְנ֣וּ · and place…and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.
- Numbers 5:7וְנָתַ֕ן · and give all this…and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.
- Numbers 5:10יִתֵּ֥ן · givesEach man’s sacred gifts are his own, but whatever he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.”
- Numbers 5:15יִתֵּ֤ן · it or put…then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.
- Numbers 5:17וְנָתַ֥ן · and putThen he is to take some holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.
- Numbers 5:18וְנָתַ֣ן · and placeAfter the priest has the woman stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering for jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.
- Numbers 5:20וַיִּתֵּ֨ן · and lainBut if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—
- Numbers 5:21יִתֵּ֨ן · make; בְּתֵ֨ת · by making…and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.
- Numbers 6:18וְנָתַן֙ · and putThen at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head, take the hair, and put it on the fire under the peace offering.
- Numbers 6:19וְנָתַן֙ · and put themAnd the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.
- Numbers 7:5וְנָתַתָּ֤ה · And give“Accept these gifts from them, that they may be used in the work of the Tent of Meeting. And give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”
- Numbers 7:6וַיִּתֵּ֥ן · and gaveSo Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.
- Numbers 7:7נָתַ֖ן · He gaveHe gave the Gershonites two carts and four oxen, as their service required,
- Numbers 7:8נָתַ֖ן · he gave…and he gave the Merarites four carts and eight oxen, as their service required, all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
- Numbers 7:9נָתָ֑ן · give [any]But he did not give any to the Kohathites, since they were to carry on their shoulders the holy objects for which they were responsible.
- Numbers 8:16נְתֻנִ֨ים · have been wholly given; נְתֻנִ֥יםFor the Levites have been wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.
- Numbers 8:19וָאֶתְּנָ֨ה · And I have given; נְתֻנִ֣ים׀ · as a giftAnd I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to perform the service for the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”
- Numbers 10:29אֶתֵּ֣ן · I will give itThen Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
- Numbers 11:13לָתֵ֖ת · for; תְּנָה־ · GiveWhere can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
- Numbers 11:18וְנָתַ֨ן · will giveAnd say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
- Numbers 11:21אֶתֵּ֣ן · I will giveBut Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
- Numbers 11:25וַיִּתֵּ֕ן · and placedThen the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.
- Numbers 11:29יִתֵּ֜ן · I wish that; יִתֵּ֧ן · would placeBut Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”
- Numbers 13:2נֹתֵ֖ן · am giving“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
- Numbers 14:1וַֽיִּתְּנ֖וּ · and cried outThen the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
- Numbers 14:4נִתְּנָ֥ה · Let us appointSo they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
- Numbers 14:8וּנְתָנָ֖הּ · and He will give itIf the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
- Numbers 15:2נֹתֵ֥ן · am giving“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home
- Numbers 15:21תִּתְּנ֥וּ · you are to giveThroughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.
- Numbers 15:38וְנָֽתְנ֛וּ · with“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.
- Numbers 16:7וּתְנ֣וּ · you are to place…and tomorrow you are to place fire and incense in them in the presence of the LORD. Then the man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. It is you sons of Levi who have taken too much upon yourselves!”
- Numbers 16:14וַתִּ֨תֶּן־ · or givenMoreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”
- Numbers 16:17וּנְתַתֶּ֤ם · placeEach man is to take his censer, place incense in it, and present it before the LORD—250 censers. You and Aaron are to present your censers as well.”