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
- Numbers 16:18וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ · putSo each man took his censer, put fire and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 16:46וְתֶן־ · placeMoses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- Numbers 16:47וַיִּתֵּן֙So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people.
- Numbers 17:6וַיִּתְּנ֣וּ · gave himSo Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff—one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. And Aaron’s staff was among them.
- Numbers 18:6נְתֻנִים֙ · dedicatedBehold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 18:7אֶתֵּן֙ · I am givingBut only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”
- Numbers 18:8נָתַ֣תִּֽי · have put; נְתַתִּ֧ים · I have given themThen the LORD said to Aaron, “Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.
- Numbers 18:11נְתַתִּ֗ים · I have given thisAnd this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.
- Numbers 18:12יִתְּנ֥וּ · I give you; נְתַתִּֽים׃ · the Israelites giveI give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.
- Numbers 18:19נָתַ֣תִּֽי · I giveAll the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”
- Numbers 18:21נָתַ֛תִּי · I have givenBehold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 18:24נָתַ֥תִּי · I have givenFor I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”
- Numbers 18:26נָתַ֧תִּי · I have given“Speak to the Levites and tell them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an offering to the LORD—a tithe of the tithe.
- Numbers 18:28וּנְתַתֶּ֤ם · you are to giveSo you are to present an offering to the LORD from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites, and from these you are to give the LORD’s offering to Aaron the priest.
- Numbers 19:3וּנְתַתֶּ֣ם · GiveGive it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
- Numbers 19:17וְנָתַ֥ן · put themFor the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
- Numbers 20:8וְנָתַ֣ן · and it will pour out“Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”
- Numbers 20:12נָתַ֥תִּי · I have givenBut the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
- Numbers 20:19וְנָתַתִּ֖י · we will pay“We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”
- Numbers 20:21נְתֹן֙ · to allowSo Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.
- Numbers 20:24נָתַ֖תִּי · I have given“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
- Numbers 21:2נָתֹ֨ן · You will deliver; תִּתֵּ֜ןSo Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”
- Numbers 21:3וַיִּתֵּן֙ · and delivered upAnd the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
- Numbers 21:16וְאֶתְּנָ֥ה · so that I may giveFrom there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”
- Numbers 21:23נָתַ֨ן · letBut Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
- Numbers 21:29נָתַ֨ן · He gave upWoe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
- Numbers 21:34נָתַ֧תִּי · I have deliveredBut the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
- Numbers 22:13לְתִתִּ֖י · to let meSo Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”
- Numbers 22:18יִתֶּן־ · were to giveBut Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
- Numbers 24:13יִתֶּן־ · were to give…that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I must speak whatever the LORD says.
- Numbers 25:12נֹתֵ֥ן · I am grantingDeclare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace.
- Numbers 26:54יֻתַּ֖ן · is to receiveIncrease the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.
- Numbers 26:62נִתַּ֤ן · was givenThe registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
- Numbers 27:4תְּנָה־ · GiveWhy should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”
- Numbers 27:7נָתֹ֨ן · You certainly must give; תִּתֵּ֤ן“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
- Numbers 27:9וּנְתַתֶּ֥ם · giveIf he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
- Numbers 27:10וּנְתַתֶּ֥ם · giveIf he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
- Numbers 27:11וּנְתַתֶּ֣ם · giveAnd if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”
- Numbers 27:12נָתַ֖תִּי · I have givenThen the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
- Numbers 27:20וְנָתַתָּ֥ה · ConferConfer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.
- Numbers 31:3לָתֵ֥ת · and executeSo Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.
- Numbers 31:29וְנָתַתָּ֛ה · and giveTake it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
- Numbers 31:30וְנָתַתָּ֤ה · and giveFrom the Israelites’ half, take one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”
- Numbers 31:41וַיִּתֵּ֣ן · gaveMoses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:47וַיִּתֵּ֨ן · and gaveFrom the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
- Numbers 32:5יֻתַּ֞ן · be given“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”