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To give

נָתַןStrong’s H5414

natan (na-tan)

Appears in 1,816 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Natan is the Hebrew word usually translated “gave”, “give” and “about to give”. It appears in 1,816 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.”
Daniel 1:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. To give, put, set(Qal) · (Niphal)
How it's translated
  • and he gave 99
  • to give 83
  • he gave 59
  • about to give 58
  • i will give 56
  • he has given 54
  • give 53
  • and he put 51

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 189
  • Deuteronomy 165
  • Jeremiah 137
  • Genesis 132
  • Exodus 101
  • Numbers 101

38 books in all.

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Ezekiel 189
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Obadiah 1
1:2
Jonah 2
1:31:14
Habakkuk 1
3:10
Zephaniah 2
3:53:20
Haggai 1
2:9
Malachi 3
2:22:52:9
Hebrew dictionary

נָתַן natan · to give

: give/deliver/send/produce 1) to give, put, set 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend 1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate 1a3) to make, constitute 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned 1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted …

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

GIVE, verb transitive

preterit tense gave; participle passive given. [Heb. to give The sense of give is generally to pass, or to transfer, that is, to send or throw.]

  1. To bestow; to confer; to pass or transfer the title or property of a thing to another person without an equivalent or compensation.
  2. To transmit from himself to another by hand, speech or writing; to deliver.“The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat” Genesis 3:12
  3. To import; to bestow.“GIVE us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out” Matthew 25:8
  4. To communicate; as, to give an opinion; to give counsel or advice; to give notice.
All definitions and other forms of “give”
  1. To pass or deliver the property of a thing to another for an equivalent; to pay.“What shall a man give in exchange for this soul?” Matthew 16:26
  2. To yield; to lend; in the phrase to give ear, which signifies to listen; to hear.
  3. To quit; in the phrase to give place, which signifies to
  4. To confer; to grant.“What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?” Genesis 15:2
  5. To expose; to yield to the power of.
  6. To grant; to allow; to permit.
  7. To afford; to supply; to furnish.“Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings” Exodus 10:25
  8. To empower; to license; to commission.
  9. To pay or render; as, to give praise, applause or approbation.
  10. To render; to pronounce; as, to give sentence or judgment; to give the word of command.
  11. To utter; to vent; as, to give a shout.
  12. To produce; to show; to exhibit as a product or result; as, the number of men divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
  13. To cause to exist; to excite in another; as, to give offense or umbrage; to give pleasure.
  14. To send forth; to emit; as, a stone gives sparks with steel.
  15. To addict; to apply; to devote one's self, followed by the reciprocal pronoun.“GIVE thyself wholly to them” 1 Timothy 4:15
  16. To resign; to yield up; often followed by up.
  17. To pledge; as, I give my word that the debt shall be paid.
  18. To present for taking or acceptance; as, I give you my hand.
  19. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  20. To addict; to attach to; to abandon.
  21. To despair of recovery; to believe to be lost, or past recovery.
  22. To abandon.
  23. To issue; to send forth; to publish.
  24. To show; to exhibit in false appearance.
  25. To send out; to emit; as, a substance gives out steam or odors.
  26. To surrender; as, to give up a fortress to an enemy.
  27. To relinquish, to cede.
  28. To abandon; as, to give up all hope.
  29. To deliver.“And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king” 2 Samuel 24:9
  30. To resign or devote.
  31. To addict; to abandon.
  32. To fail; to yield or force; to break or fall.
  33. To recede; to make room for.
  34. In seamen's language, give way is an order to a boat's crew to row after ceasing, or to increase their exertions.

GIVE, verb intransitive

giv. To yield to pressure. The earth gives under the feet.

  1. To begin to melt; to thaw; to grow soft, so as to yield to pressure.
  2. To move; to recede.
  3. To cease from exertion; to yield; applied to persons.

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.