נָתַק
na.taq
“to tear”
Definition
to tear off
a primitive root;
- to pull or tear or draw off or away or apart, draw out, pluck up, break, lift, root out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to draw away 1a2) to draw or pull off 1a3) to pull or tear away 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be drawn away, be drawn out 1b2) to be torn apart or in two, be snapped 1b3) to be separated 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to tear apart, snap 1c2) to tear out, tear up, tear away 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to draw away 1d2) to drag away 1e) (Hophal) to be drawn away
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
נָתַק appears 26 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:to break the chains of wickedness,to untie the cords of the yoke,to set the oppressed freeand tear off every yoke?
My tent is destroyed,and all its ropes are snapped.My sons have departed from meand are no more.I have no one left to pitch my tentor set up my curtains.
I will go to the powerfuland speak to them.Surely they know the way of the LORD,the justice of their God.”But they too, with one accord, had broken the yokeand torn off the chains.
They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,
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