Nâṭash — H5203

Definition

verb

properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)

1. to leave, permit, forsake, cast off or away, reject, suffer, join, spread out or abroad, be loosed, cease, abandon, quit, hang loose, cast down, make a raid, lie fallow, let fall, forgo, draw
1. (Qal)
1. to leave, let alone, lie fallow, entrust to
2. to forsake, abandon
3. to permit
2. (Niphal)
1. to be forsaken
2. to be loosened, be loose
3. to be let go, spread abroad
3. (Pual) to be abandoned, be deserted

Usually translated as

forsake, leave, drawn, let fall, lie still, abroad, cast off, join, loose, spread, stretch out, suffer

Origin

a primitive root

Occurrences

Nâṭash occurs 40 times in 39 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (1), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (2), 1 Samuel (7), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (1), Nehemiah (1), Psalms (3), Proverbs (3), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (5), Ezekiel (3), Hosea (1), Amos (1)

• Genesis 31:28 — And hast not suffered (נְטַשְׁתַּ֔נִי) me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
• Exodus 23:11 — But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still (וּנְטַשְׁתָּ֗הּ); that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
• Numbers 11:31 — And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall (וַיִּטֹּ֨שׁ) by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
• Deuteronomy 32:15 — But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook (וַיִּטֹּשׁ֙) God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
• Judges 6:13 — And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken (נְטָשָׁ֣נוּ) us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
• Judges 15:9 — Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves (וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ) in Lehi.
• 1 Samuel 4:2 — And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined (וַתִּטֹּשׁ֙) battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
• 1 Samuel 10:2 — When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left (נָטַ֤שׁ) the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
• 1 Samuel 12:22 — For the LORD will not forsake (יִטֹּ֤שׁ) his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
• 1 Samuel 17:20 — And David rose up early in the morning, and left (וַיִּטֹּ֤שׁ) the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
• 1 Samuel 17:22 — And David left (וַיִּטֹּשׁ֩) his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
• 1 Samuel 17:28 — And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left (נָטַ֜שְׁתָּ) those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
• 1 Samuel 30:16 — And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad (נְטֻשִׁ֖ים) upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
• 2 Samuel 5:18 — The Philistines also came and spread themselves (וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ) in the valley of Rephaim.
• 2 Samuel 5:22 — And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves (וַיִּנָּֽטְשׁ֖וּ) in the valley of Rephaim.
• 1 Kings 8:57 — The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake (יִטְּשֵֽׁנוּ) us:
• 2 Kings 21:14 — And I will forsake (וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֗י) the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
• Nehemiah 10:31 — And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave (וְנִטֹּ֛שׁ) the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
• Psalms 27:9 — Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave (תִּטְּשֵׁ֥נִי) me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
• Psalms 78:60 — So that he forsook (וַ֭יִּטֹּשׁ) the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
• Psalms 94:14 — For the LORD will not cast off (יִטֹּ֣שׁ) his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
• Proverbs 1:8 — My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake (תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ) not the law of thy mother:
• Proverbs 6:20 — My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake (תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ) not the law of thy mother:
• Proverbs 17:14 — The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off (נְטֽוֹשׁ) contention, before it be meddled with.
• Isaiah 2:6 — Therefore thou hast forsaken (נָטַ֗שְׁתָּה) thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
• Isaiah 16:8 — For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out (נִטְּשׁ֖וּ), they are gone over the sea.
• Isaiah 21:15 — For they fled from the swords, from the drawn (נְטוּשָׁ֗ה) sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
• Isaiah 32:14 — Because the palaces shall be forsaken (נֻטָּ֔שׁ); the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
• Isaiah 33:23 — Thy tacklings are loosed (נִטְּשׁ֖וּ); they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
• Jeremiah 7:29 — Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken (וַיִּטֹּ֖שׁ) the generation of his wrath.
• Jeremiah 12:7 — I have forsaken mine house, I have left (נָטַ֖שְׁתִּי) mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
• Jeremiah 15:6 — Thou hast forsaken (נָטַ֥שְׁתְּ) me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
• Jeremiah 23:33 — And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake (וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֥י) you, saith the LORD.
• Jeremiah 23:39 — Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake (וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֣י) you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
• Ezekiel 29:5 — And I will leave (וּנְטַשְׁתִּ֣יךָ) thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
• Ezekiel 31:12 — And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left (וַֽיִּטְּשֻׁ֑הוּ) him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
• Ezekiel 31:12 — And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left (וַֽיִּטְּשֻֽׁהוּ) him.
• Ezekiel 32:4 — Then will I leave (וּנְטַשְׁתִּ֣יךָ) thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
• Hosea 12:14 — Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave (יִטּ֔וֹשׁ) his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
• Amos 5:2 — The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken (נִטְּשָׁ֥ה) upon her land; there is none to raise her up.