To start
נָתַרStrong’s H5425natar (na-tar)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Natar is the Hebrew word usually translated “hop”, “set free” and “may he loosen”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;”
Meaning
- To start up, tremble, shake, spring up(Qal) to start up · (Piel) to leap · (Hiphil) to cause to start up
- To loose, let loose, undo, be free, be loose(Hiphil)
How it's translated
- to hop 1
- and he set free 1
- may he loosen 1
- so it may leap 1
- and he set free him 1
- setting free 1
- to unfasten 1
- and he has made jump 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Leviticus 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
- Habakkuk 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:33God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
- Job 6:9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- Job 37:1At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
- Psalms 105:20The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
- Psalms 146:7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
- Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Hebrew dictionary
נָתַר natar · to start
1) to start up, tremble, shake, spring up 1a) (Qal) to start up 1b) (Piel) to leap 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to start up
נָתַר natar · to free
1) to loose, let loose, undo, be free, be loose 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to unfasten, loosen 1a2) to set free, unbind Aramaic equivalent: ne.tar (נְתַר "to strip" H5426)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “start” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
START, verb transitive
- To move suddenly, as if by a twitch; as, to start in sleep or by a sudden spasm.
- To move suddenly, as by an involuntary shrinking from sudden fear or alarm.
- To move with sudden quickness, as with a spring or leap.
- To shrink; to wince.
All definitions and other forms of “start”
- To move suddenly aside; to deviate; generally with from, out of, or aside.
- To set out; to commence a race, as from a barrier or goal.
- To set out; to commence a journey or enterprise.
START, verb transitive
- To alarm; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to rouse.
- To rouse suddenly from concealment; to cause to flee or fly; as, to start a hare or a woodcock; to start game.
- To bring into motion; to produce suddenly to view or notice.
- To invent or discover; to bring within pursuit.
- To move suddenly from its place; to dislocate; as, to start a bone.
- To empty, as liquor from a cask; to pour out; as, to start wine into another cask.
START, noun
- A sudden motion of the body, produced by spasm; a sudden twitch or spasmodic affection; as a start in sleep.
- A sudden motion from alarm.
- A sudden rousing to action; a spring; excitement.
- Sally; sudden motion or effusion; a bursting forth; as starts of fancy.
- Sudden fit; sudden motion followed by intermission.
- A quick spring; a darting; a shoot; a push; as, to give a start
- First in motion from a place; act of setting out.
START, noun
A projection; a push; a horn; a tail. IN the latter sense it occurs int he name of the bird red-start. Hence the start in Devonshire.
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.