נָטָה
na.tah
“to stretch”
Definition
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application
a primitive root;
- to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to stretch out, extend, stretch, offer 1a2) to spread out, pitch (tent) 1a3) to bend, turn, incline 1a3a) to turn aside, incline, decline, bend down 1a3b) to bend, bow 1a3c) to hold out, extend (fig.) 1b) (Niphal) to be stretched out 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to stretch out 1c2) to spread out 1c3) to turn, incline, influence, bend down, hold out, extend, thrust aside, thrust away
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logos (G3056)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
H:V
Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
נָטָה appears 188 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
So he did not move the ark with him to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.
O Hope of Israel,its Savior in times of distress,why are You like a stranger in the land,like a traveler who stays but a night?
even the slopes of the wadisthat extend to the site of Arand lie along the border of Moab.”
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