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To stretch

נָטָהStrong’s H5186

natah (na-tah)

Appears in 207 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Natah is the Hebrew word usually translated “outstretched”, “incline” and “stretched out”. It appears in 207 verses of the Old Testament.

“O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.”
Daniel 9:18 KJV
Meaning
  1. To stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow(Qal) · (Niphal) to be stretched out · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • outstretched 17
  • incline 15
  • and he stretched out 10
  • stretched out 10
  • and i will stretch out 8
  • stretch out 7
  • they inclined 6
  • and he pitched 5

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 29
  • Isaiah 25
  • Jeremiah 22
  • Exodus 21
  • Proverbs 12
  • Ezekiel 12

26 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 207 verses, by book
1 Samuel 2
8:314:7
2 Chronicles 2
1:46:32
Ezra 2
7:289:9
Lamentations 2
2:83:35
Daniel 1
9:18
Hosea 1
11:4
Zephaniah 2
1:42:13
Zechariah 2
1:1612:1
Malachi 1
3:5
Hebrew dictionary

נָטָה natah · to stretch

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 (fig.) 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

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “stretch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

STRETCH, verb transitive

[Latin]

  1. To draw out to greater length; to extend in a line; as, to stretch a cord or a rope.
  2. To extend in breadth; as, to stretch cloth.
  3. To spread; to expand; as, to stretch the wings.
  4. To reach; to extend.
All definitions and other forms of “stretch”
  1. To spread; to display; as, to stretch forth the heavens.
  2. To draw or pull out in length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
  3. To make tense; to strain.
  4. To extend mentally; as, to stretch the mind or thoughts.
  5. To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch ones credit.

STRETCH, verb intransitive

  1. To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both.
  2. To be extended; to spread; as, a lake stretches over a hundred miles of earth.
  3. To stretch to, is to reach.
  4. To be extended or to bear extension without breaking, as elastic substances.
  5. To sally beyond the truth; to exaggerate.
  6. In navigation, to sail; to direct a course.
  7. To make violent efforts in running.

STRETCH, noun

  1. Extension in length or in breadth; reach; as a great stretch of wings.
  2. Effort; struggle; strain.
  3. Force of body; straining.
  4. Utmost extent of meaning.
  5. Utmost reach of power.
  6. In sailing, a tack; the reach or extent of progress on one tack.
  7. Course; direction; as the stretch of seams of coal.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.