Hebrew verb · H5408
נָתַח
nathachnaw-thakh'
to cut
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâthach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5408is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5408
to dismember
The King James renders it: cut (in pieces), divide, hew in pieces.
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
nathach is rendered "to cut". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 29:17Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.
Exodus 29:17תְּנַתֵּ֖חַ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he will cut in pieces2
- and he cut in pieces her1
- and he cut in pieces it1
- and I cut in pieces her1
- and let them cut in pieces it1
- he cut in pieces1
- you will cut in pieces1
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.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- וָֽאֲנַתְּחֶ֔הָ1
- וַֽיְנַתְּחֶ֙הָ֙1
- וִֽינַתְּחֻ֗הוּ1
- וַֽיְנַתְּחֵ֗הוּ1
- וְנִתַּ֥ח1
- וְנִתַּ֤ח1
- נִתַּ֖ח1
- תְּנַתֵּ֖חַ1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpq3ms2Hc/Vpq3ms
- HC/Vpu3mp/Sp3ms1HC/Vpu3mp/Sp3ms
- Hc/Vpw1cs/Sp3fs1Hc/Vpw1cs/Sp3fs
- Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3fs1Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3fs
- Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpi2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms
Exodus
one use
Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.
- תְּנַתֵּ֖חַtenateachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will cut in pieces
Leviticus
three uses
Next, he is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
- וְנִתַּ֥חvenitachHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will cut in pieces
He is to cut the animal into pieces, and the priest shall arrange them, including the head and fat, atop the burning wood that is on the altar.
- וְנִתַּ֤חvenitachHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will cut in pieces
He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.
- נִתַּ֖חnitachverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he cut in pieces
Judges
two uses
When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
- וַֽיְנַתְּחֶ֙הָ֙vaynatechehaHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he cut in pieces her
Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
- וָֽאֲנַתְּחֶ֔הָvaanatechehaHc/Vpw1cs/Sp3fstagged: and I cut in pieces her
1 Samuel
one use
He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell upon the people, and they turned out as one man.
- וַֽיְנַתְּחֵ֗הוּvaynatechehuHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he cut in pieces it
1 Kings
one use
Get two bulls for us. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. And I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire.
- וִֽינַתְּחֻ֗הוּvinatechuhuHC/Vpu3mp/Sp3mstagged: and let them cut in pieces it
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 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.