nata · stretch out, turn aside

What it means

nata (נָטָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stretch out, turn aside”.

Stretch out, spread; pitch a tent. Also bend, incline; turn aside, pervert (justice).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To reach out the hand, or set up a tent.
2. To turn the ear or the heart toward someone or something.
3. To leave the straight way, or bend it on purpose.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Stretch out, spread; from there, incline and turn aside. BDB: to stretch or spread out; by implication, to turn aside, also in a moral sense. From the same root comes מִטָּה, “bed”.

• To stretch out the hand or the staff Exodus 10:12Joshua 8:18
• “With a strong hand and with an outstretched arm” Psalms 136:12
• To stretch out the heavens; to pitch a tent Psalms 104:2Isaiah 40:22Genesis 12:8
• To incline the ear or the heart Psalms 17:61 Kings 11:3
• To turn aside from the road 2 Samuel 2:19Genesis 38:16

How we translate it

Forms of “stretch out” (“stretched out” 33 times, “Stretch out” 23, “outstretched” 18), of “incline” (27, “inclined” 12) and of “turn aside” (15, “turned aside” 10). A tent is “pitched” (10).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stretched out ×33
• incline ×27
• Stretch out ×23
• outstretched ×18
• turn aside ×15
• inclined ×12
• pitched ×10
• turned aside ×10
• turn ×8
• who stretches out ×6
• others ×52

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Exodus×22
• Numbers×10
• Deuteronomy×9
• Joshua×5
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×9
• 1 Kings×8
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×5
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×2
• Job×9
• Psalms×29
• Proverbs×12
• Isaiah×26
• Jeremiah×22
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×12
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×3
• Zephaniah×2
• Zechariah×2
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 12:8

  From there he moved on to the mountain east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to YHWH and called on the name of YHWH.

• Genesis 24:14

  Let it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your jar so that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels,’ she is the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loyal love to my lord.”

• Genesis 26:25

  He built there an altar and called on the name of YHWH, and pitched his tent there, and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

• Genesis 33:19

  He bought the piece of the field where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred qesitah.

• Genesis 35:21

  Israel set out and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder.

• Genesis 38:1

  It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a man, an Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

• Genesis 38:16

  He turned to her by the road and said, “Come, please, let me go in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me that you may go in to me?”

• Genesis 39:21

  But YHWH was with Joseph and extended to him loyal love, and gave him favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison.

• Genesis 49:15

  He saw a resting place, that it was good, and the land, that it was pleasant; so he bent his shoulder to bear burdens and became subject to forced labor.

• Exodus 6:6

  Therefore say to the sons of Israel, ‘I am YHWH, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

• Exodus 7:5

  And the Egyptians will know that I am YHWH, when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”

• Exodus 7:19

  YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their canals, over their pools, and over all the reservoirs of their water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

• Exodus 8:5

  YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and bring up the frogs on the land of Egypt.’”

• Exodus 8:6

  So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 8:16

  YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.’”

• Exodus 8:17

  They did so; Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on people and on animals; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 9:22

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals and on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus 9:23

  Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and YHWH sent thunder and hail, and fire went down to the earth; and YHWH rained hail on the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 10:12

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, all that the hail has left.”

• Exodus 10:13

  So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and YHWH drove an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; when it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.

• Exodus 10:21

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

• Exodus 10:22

  So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

• Exodus 14:16

  And you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and split it, so that the sons of Israel may go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.

• Exodus 14:21

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and YHWH drove back the sea by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were split.

• Exodus 14:26

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots, and over their horsemen.”

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned as morning appeared to its normal flow; and the Egyptians, fleeing, met it; and YHWH shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

• Exodus 15:12

  You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.

• Exodus 23:2

  You shall not follow a majority to do evil, nor testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a majority to pervert justice.

• Exodus 23:6

  You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

• Exodus 33:7

  And Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought YHWH would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

• Numbers 20:17

  Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, and we will not drink water from a well. We will go along the way of the king; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

• Numbers 20:21

  Thus Edom refused to let Israel pass through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.

• Numbers 21:15

  and the slope of the brooks that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans on the border of Moab.”

• Numbers 21:22

  “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or into vineyard; we will not drink water from a well; we will go by the way of the king until we have passed through your territory.”

• Numbers 22:23

  And the donkey saw the angel of YHWH standing in the road, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back to the road.

• Numbers 22:26

  And the angel of YHWH went ahead again and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn to the right or to the left.

• Numbers 22:33

  And the donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely by now I would have killed even you and let her live.”

• Numbers 24:6

  Like valleys they stretch out, like gardens beside a river, like aloes YHWH has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

• Deuteronomy 4:34

  Or has a god tried to come and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that YHWH your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

• Deuteronomy 5:15

  Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that YHWH your Elohim brought you out from there with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore YHWH your Elohim has commanded you to celebrate the day of the Sabbath.

And 174 more times.