To leave
נָטַשׁStrong’s H5203natash (na-tash)
Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Natash is the Hebrew word usually translated “were spread out”, “abandon” and “abandoned”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.
“And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.”
Meaning
- 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(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Pual) to be abandoned, be deserted
How it's translated
- and they were spread out 3
- and i will abandon 3
- and he abandoned 2
- he will abandon 2
- and he left 2
- and i will abandon you 2
- and they abandoned it 2
- did you allow me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 7
- Isaiah 5
- Jeremiah 5
- Psalms 3
- Proverbs 3
- Ezekiel 3
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 23:11But 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 of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
- Numbers 11:31And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: 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 of his salvation.
- Judges 6:13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
- Judges 15:9Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
- 1 Samuel 4:2And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
All 39 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נָטַשׁ natash · to leave
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “left” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEFT, adjective
[Latin lavus; Gr. probably from the root of leave, Gr. and properly weak, deficient. Applied to the hand or arm, it denotes the weak arm, as opposed to the right, the strong or dextrous. Hence the ancient idea of sinister, unfortunate, attached to the left arm or side.]
- Denoting the part opposed to the right of the body; as the left hand, arm or side.
- The left bank of a river, is that which is on the left hand of a person whose face is towards the mouth of the river.
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.