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Hebrew verb · H5428

נָתַשׁ

nathashnaw-thash'

to uproot

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

Concordance spelling: nâthash

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5428is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5428

to tear away

The King James renders it: destroy, forsake, pluck (out, up, by the roots), pull up, root out (up), [idiom] utterly. s

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

nathash is rendered "to uproot". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Thirteen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 29:28The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

Deuteronomy 29:28וַיִּתְּשֵׁ֤ם

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

Where the word stands

Thirteen of the word's twenty-one uses are in Jeremiah.

The other 30 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

  • I will pluck up3
  • to pluck up3
  • and I will pluck up2
  • it will be plucked up2
  • about to pluck up1
  • about to pluck up them1
  • and he plucked up them1
  • and he will pluck up1
  • and I will pluck up them1
  • and it was plucked up1
  • are they plucked up1
  • have plucked up I1

and 3 more, 21 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.

נָתַןnathanto give: giveUses2,011
נָתַץnathatsto tearUses42
נָתַקnathaqto tearUses27
נָתַךְnathakto pourUses21
נָתַחnathachto cutUses8
נָתַרnatharto startUses8
נָתַעnathato breakUses1

The words it stands beside

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 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

  • לִנְת֥וֹשׁ2
  • אֶתּ֥וֹשׁ1
  • אֶתּ֑וֹשׁ1
  • אֶתּֽוֹשׁ׃1
  • וַיִּתְּשֵׁ֤ם1
  • וְנָתַ֣שׁ1
  • וְנָ֨תַשְׁתִּ֜י1
  • וְנָתַשְׁתִּ֥י1
  • וּנְתַשְׁתִּ֗ים1
  • וַתֻּתַּ֤שׁ1
  • יִנָּתֵ֧שׁ1
  • יִנָּתְשׁ֗וּ1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVqi1cs
  • Hc/Vqq1cs2Hc/Vqq1cs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVNi3mp
  • Hc/VHw3fs1Hc/VHw3fs
  • Hc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mp1Hc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mp
  • Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNi3fs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HVqaa
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqcc/Sp1bs

Deuteronomy

one use
  • The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

    Deuteronomy 29:28

    • וַיִּתְּשֵׁ֤םvaiyiteshemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he plucked up them

1 Kings

one use
  • For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

    1 Kings 14:15

    • וְנָתַ֣שׁvenatashHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will pluck up

2 Chronicles

one use
  • then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

    2 Chronicles 7:20

    • וּנְתַשְׁתִּ֗יםunetashtimHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will pluck up them

Psalms

one use
  • The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.

    Psalms 9:6

    • נָתַ֑שְׁתָּnatashtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have plucked up

Jeremiah

thirteen uses
  • See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”

    Jeremiah 1:10

    • לִנְת֥וֹשׁlintooshpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to pluck up
  • This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

    Jeremiah 12:14

    • נֹֽתְשָׁם֙noteshamverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: about to pluck up them
    • אֶתּ֥וֹשׁʾetooshverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will pluck up
  • But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

    Jeremiah 12:15

    • נָתְשִׁ֣יnateshiverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: have plucked up I
  • But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”

    Jeremiah 12:17

    • וְנָ֨תַשְׁתִּ֜יvenatashtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will pluck up
    • נָת֥וֹשׁnatooshverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: plucking up
  • At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

    Jeremiah 18:7

    • לִנְת֥וֹשׁlintooshpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to pluck up
  • Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?

    Jeremiah 18:14

    • יִנָּתְשׁ֗וּyinateshuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: are they plucked up
  • I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.

    Jeremiah 24:6

    • אֶתּֽוֹשׁ׃ʾetooshverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will pluck up
  • Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 31:28

    • לִנְת֧וֹשׁlintooshpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to pluck up
  • The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

    Jeremiah 31:40

    • יִנָּתֵ֧שׁyinateshverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be plucked up
  • ‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.

    Jeremiah 42:10

    • אֶתּ֑וֹשׁʾetooshverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will pluck up
  • Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

    Jeremiah 45:4

    • נֹתֵ֑שׁnoteshverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to pluck up

Ezekiel

one use
  • But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

    Ezekiel 19:12

    • וַתֻּתַּ֤שׁvatutashHc/VHw3fstagged: and it was plucked up

Daniel

one use
  • But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the authority with which he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others.

    Daniel 11:4

    • תִנָּתֵשׁ֙tinateshverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be plucked up

Amos

one use
  • I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.

    Amos 9:15

    • יִנָּתְשׁ֜וּyinateshuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be plucked up

Micah

one use
  • I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.

    Micah 5:14

    • וְנָתַשְׁתִּ֥יvenatashtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will pluck up

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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