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Hebrew verb · H5203

נָטַשׁ

natashnaw-tash'

to leave

40 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nâṭash

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5203is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 17 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 36
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5203

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.)

The King James renders it: cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

natash is rendered "to leave". It stands 40 times in the Hebrew text, across seventeen books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:28But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-six different ways.

The first use

But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.

Genesis 31:28נְטַשְׁתַּ֔נִי

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in seventeen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 22 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and I will abandon3
  • and they were spread out3
  • and he abandoned2
  • and he left2
  • and I will abandon you2
  • and they abandoned it2
  • he will abandon2
  • abandon1
  • and he has abandoned1
  • and it left1
  • and it spread out1
  • and you will leave fallow it1

and 19 more, 40 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

נָטַעnatato plantUses58
נָטַףnataphto drip/prophesyUses18
נָטַרnatarto keepUses9
נָטַלnatalto liftUses4

All 40, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

36 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ2
  • וּנְטַשְׁתִּ֣יךָ2
  • נִטְּשׁ֖וּ2
  • תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ2
  • וַ֭יִּטֹּשׁ1
  • וַיִּטֹּ֨שׁ1
  • וַיִּטֹּשׁ֙1
  • וַיִּטֹּ֤שׁ1
  • וַיִּטֹּשׁ֩1
  • וַיִּטֹּ֖שׁ1
  • וַֽיִּטְּשֻׁ֑הוּ1
  • וַֽיִּטְּשֻֽׁהוּ׃1

and 24 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms6Hc/Vqw3ms
  • Hc/VNw3mp3Hc/VNw3mp
  • Hc/Vqq1cs3Hc/Vqq1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • Hc/Vqq1cs/Sp2ms2Hc/Vqq1cs/Sp2ms
  • Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3ms2Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVNp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqj2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqp2ms
  • Hc/Vqq2ms/Sp3fs1Hc/Vqq2ms/Sp3fs
  • HC/Vqu1cp1HC/Vqu1cp
  • Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs

Genesis

one use
  • But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.

    Genesis 31:28

    • נְטַשְׁתַּ֔נִיnetashtaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: did you allow? me

Exodus

one use
  • but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

    Exodus 23:11

    • וּנְטַשְׁתָּ֗הּunetashtahHc/Vqq2ms/Sp3fstagged: and you will leave fallow it

Numbers

one use
  • Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.

    Numbers 11:31

    • וַיִּטֹּ֨שׁvaiyitoshHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it left

Deuteronomy

one use
  • But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

    Deuteronomy 32:15

    • וַיִּטֹּשׁ֙vaiyitoshHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he abandoned

Judges

two uses
  • “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

    Judges 6:13

    • נְטָשָׁ֣נוּnetashanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: he has abandoned us
  • Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.

    Judges 15:9

    • וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּvaiyinateshuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were spread out

1 Samuel

seven uses
  • The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.

    1 Samuel 4:2

    • וַתִּטֹּשׁ֙vatitoshHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it spread out
  • When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’

    1 Samuel 10:2

    • נָטַ֤שׁnatashverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has abandoned
  • Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

    1 Samuel 12:22

    • יִטֹּ֤שׁyitoshverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will abandon
  • So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.

    1 Samuel 17:20

    • וַיִּטֹּ֤שׁvaiyitoshHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
  • Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.

    1 Samuel 17:22

    • וַיִּטֹּשׁ֩vaiyitoshHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
  • Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

    1 Samuel 17:28

    • נָטַ֜שְׁתָּnatashtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have you left
  • So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

    1 Samuel 30:16

    • נְטֻשִׁ֖יםnetushimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: spread out

2 Samuel

two uses
  • Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

    2 Samuel 5:18

    • וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּvaiyinateshuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were spread out
  • Once again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

    2 Samuel 5:22

    • וַיִּנָּֽטְשׁ֖וּvaiyinateshuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were spread out

1 Kings

one use
  • May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us nor forsake us.

    1 Kings 8:57

    • יִטְּשֵֽׁנוּ׃yiteshenuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: he abandon us

2 Kings

one use
  • So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

    2 Kings 21:14

    • וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֗יvenatashtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will abandon

Nehemiah

one use
  • When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.

    Nehemiah 10:31

    • וְנִטֹּ֛שׁvenitoshHC/Vqu1cptagged: so we may leave

Psalms

three uses
  • Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

    Psalms 27:9

    • תִּטְּשֵׁ֥נִיtitesheniverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you abandon me
  • He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

    Psalms 78:60

    • וַ֭יִּטֹּשׁvaiyitoshHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he abandoned
  • For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.

    Psalms 94:14

    • יִטֹּ֣שׁyitoshverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will abandon

Proverbs

three uses
  • Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

    Proverbs 1:8

    • תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁtitoshverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you reject
  • My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

    Proverbs 6:20

    • תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁtitoshverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you forsake
  • To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

    Proverbs 17:14

    • נְטֽוֹשׁ׃netooshverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: abandon

Isaiah

five uses
  • For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

    Isaiah 2:6

    • נָטַ֗שְׁתָּהnatashtahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have abandoned
  • For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.

    Isaiah 16:8

    • נִטְּשׁ֖וּniteshuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were spread out
  • For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.

    Isaiah 21:15

    • נְטוּשָׁ֗הnetushahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: drawn
  • For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

    Isaiah 32:14

    • נֻטָּ֔שׁnutashverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be forsaken
  • Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

    Isaiah 33:23

    • נִטְּשׁ֖וּniteshuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are loose

Jeremiah

five uses
  • Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

    Jeremiah 7:29

    • וַיִּטֹּ֖שׁvaiyitoshHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has abandoned
  • I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.

    Jeremiah 12:7

    • נָטַ֖שְׁתִּיnatashtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have abandoned
  • You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

    Jeremiah 15:6

    • נָטַ֥שְׁתְּnatashtverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you abandoned
  • “Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’

    Jeremiah 23:33

    • וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֥יvenatashtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will abandon
  • therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.

    Jeremiah 23:39

    • וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֣יvenatashtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will abandon

Ezekiel

four uses
  • I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.

    Ezekiel 29:5

    • וּנְטַשְׁתִּ֣יךָunetashtikhaHc/Vqq1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I will abandon you
  • Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

    Ezekiel 31:12

    • וַֽיִּטְּשֻׁ֑הוּvaiyiteshuhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they abandoned it
    • וַֽיִּטְּשֻֽׁהוּ׃vaiyiteshuhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they abandoned it
  • I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.

    Ezekiel 32:4

    • וּנְטַשְׁתִּ֣יךָunetashtikhaHc/Vqq1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I will abandon you

Hosea

one use
  • Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.

    Hosea 12:14

    • יִטּ֔וֹשׁyitooshverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will leave

Amos

one use
  • “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

    Amos 5:2

    • נִטְּשָׁ֥הniteshahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has been abandoned

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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