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נָתַח

natach · cut in pieces

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5408 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

natach (נָתַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut in pieces”.

Cut into pieces, cut up an animal.

How to say it

na·tach

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 cut up the offering: to separate the head, legs and flesh into pieces for the altar.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • cut ×7
  • cut it in pieces ×2

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Exodus 29:17

    You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head.

  • Leviticus 1:6

    He shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.

  • Leviticus 1:12

    He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its suet, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar.

  • Leviticus 8:20

    The ram he cut into its pieces, and Moses offered up in smoke the head, the pieces, and the suet.

  • Judges 19:29

    And he came to his house and took the knife, and took hold of his concubine and cut her into pieces by her bones into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.

  • Judges 20:6

    So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the field of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed infamy and vileness in Israel.

  • 1 Samuel 11:7

    He took a yoke of oxen and cut it in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” And the dread of YHWH fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.

  • 1 Kings 18:23

    Let them give us two bulls; and let them choose for themselves the one bull and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it; and I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood, and I will put no fire to it.

  • 1 Kings 18:33

    He arranged the wood, cut in pieces the bull, and laid it on the wood.