To tear
נָתַקStrong’s H5423nataq (na-taq)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nataq is the Hebrew word usually translated “tear apart”, “is torn” and “were drawn out”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.”
Meaning
- To pull or tear or draw off or away or apart, draw out, pluck up, break, lift, root out(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to be drawn away
How it's translated
- i will tear apart 2
- and is torn 1
- they were drawn out 1
- have drawn out we 1
- and they were drawn out 1
- and he tore apart 1
- it is torn apart 1
- and he tore apart them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 7
- Judges 4
- Joshua 3
- Isaiah 3
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 4:18And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
- Joshua 8:6(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
- Joshua 8:16And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
- Judges 16:9Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
- Judges 16:12Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
- Judges 20:31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
נָתַק nataq · to tear
1) to pull or tear or draw off or away or apart, draw out, pluck up, break, lift, root out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to draw away 1a2) to draw or pull off 1a3) to pull or tear away 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be drawn away, be drawn out 1b2) to be torn apart or in two, be snapped 1b3) to be separated 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to tear apart, snap 1c2) to tear out, tear up, tear away 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to draw away 1d2) to drag away 1e) (Hophal) to be drawn away
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEAR, noun
- Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them.
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.
All definitions and other forms of “tear”
TEAR, verb transitive
[Latin tero.]
- To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh.
- To wound; to lacerate.
- To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.
- To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.
- To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
- To remove by violence; to break up.
- To make a violent rent.
TEAR, verb intransitive
To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.
TEAR, noun
A rent; a fissure. [Little used.]
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.