Strong's #5186: natah (pronounced naw-taw')
a primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows):--+ afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
nâṭâh
1) to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to stretch out, extend, stretch, offer
1a2) to spread out, pitch (tent)
1a3) to bend, turn, incline
1a3a) to turn aside, incline, decline, bend down
1a3b) to bend, bow
1a3c) to hold out, extend (figuratively)
1b) (Niphal) to be stretched out
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to stretch out
1c2) to spread out
1c3) to turn, incline, influence, bend down, hold out, extend, thrust aside, thrust away
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 214 times:
Job 38:5: "thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon"
Psalms 17:6: "thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech."
Psalms 17:11: "us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;"
Psalms 18:9: " He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet."
Psalms 21:11: "For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able"
Psalms 27:9: "not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been"
Psalms 31:2: " Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock,"
Psalms 40:1: "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry."
Psalms 44:18: "turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;"
Psalms 45:10: "Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's"
Psalms 49:4: " I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp."
Psalms 62:3: "against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence."
Psalms 71:2: "Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save"
Psalms 73:2: "But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped."
Psalms 78:1: "Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth."
Psalms 86:1: "A Prayer of David. Bow down thine ear, O LORD hear me: for I"
Psalms 88:2: "Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;"
Psalms 102:2: "from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call"
Psalms 102:11: "My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass."
Psalms 104:2: "Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:"
Psalms 109:23: "I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust."
Psalms 116:2: "Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live."
Psalms 119:36: " Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness."
Psalms 119:51: "have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law."
Psalms 119:112: " I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes always, even unto the end."
Psalms 119:157: "are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies."
Psalms 125:5: " As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace"
Psalms 136:12: "With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth forever."
Psalms 141:4: " Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works"
Psalms 144:5: " Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke."
Proverbs 1:24: "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;"
Proverbs 2:2: "So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;"
Proverbs 4:5: "forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth."
Proverbs 4:20: "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings."
Proverbs 4:27: " Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil."
Proverbs 5:1: "My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:"
Proverbs 5:13: "the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed"
Proverbs 7:21: "With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced"
Proverbs 17:23: "man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment."
Proverbs 18:5: "to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment."
Proverbs 21:1: "of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will."
Proverbs 22:17: " Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge."
Isaiah 3:16: "the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,"
Isaiah 5:25: "is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten"
Isaiah 5:25: "this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."
Isaiah 9:12: "this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."
Isaiah 9:17: "his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."
Isaiah 9:21: "is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."
Isaiah 10:2: " To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people,"
Isaiah 10:4: "is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."
