Strong's #5203: natash (pronounced naw-tash')

a primitive root; 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.):--cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

nâṭash

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

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to leave, let alone, lie fallow, entrust to

1a2) to forsake, abandon

1a3) to permit

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be forsaken

1b2) to be loosened, be loose

1b3) to be let go, spread abroad

1c) (Pual) to be abandoned, be deserted

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 40 times:

 

Genesis 31:28: "And hast not suffered 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; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts"
Numbers 11:31: "and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's"
Deuteronomy 32:15: "thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock"
Judges 6:13: "from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites."
Judges 15:9: "went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi."
1 Samuel 4:2: "put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before"
1 Samuel 10:2: "to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses,"
1 Samuel 12:22: "For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's"
1 Samuel 17:20: "And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper,"
1 Samuel 17:22: "And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage,"
1 Samuel 17:28: "camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness?"
1 Samuel 30:16: "And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating"
2 Samuel 5:18: "The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim."
2 Samuel 5:22: "came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim."
1 Kings 8:57: "let him not leave us, nor forsake"
2 Kings 21:14: " And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become"
Nehemiah 10:31: "them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction"
Psalms 27:9: "me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither"
Psalms 78:60: " So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;"
Psalms 94:14: "For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance."
Proverbs 1:8: "hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"
Proverbs 6:20: "keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"
Proverbs 17:14: "of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with."
Isaiah 2:6: "Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east,"
Isaiah 16:8: "they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea."
Isaiah 21:15: "from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from"
Isaiah 32:14: "Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers"
Isaiah 33:23: "Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread"
Jeremiah 7:29: "for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath."
Jeremiah 12:7: "I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given"
Jeremiah 15:6: "Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out"
Jeremiah 23:33: "them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 23:39: "Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave"
Ezekiel 29:5: " And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open"
Ezekiel 31:12: "the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys"
Ezekiel 31:12: "of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left"
Ezekiel 32:4: " Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls"
Hosea 12:14: "Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord"
Amos 5:2: "she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up."