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:
Ezekiel 25:13: "saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off"
Ezekiel 25:16: "the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off"
Ezekiel 30:25: "into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt."
Ezekiel 35:3: "O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate."
Daniel 9:18: "O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations,"
Hosea 11:4: "the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto"
Amos 2:7: "of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father"
Amos 2:8: " And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink"
Amos 5:12: "the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate"
Zephaniah 1:4: " I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem;"
Zephaniah 2:13: " And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make"
Zechariah 1:16: "the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem."
Zechariah 12:1: "Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth"
Malachi 3:5: "in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith"
