natak · tear off, break

What it means

natak (נָתַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tear off, break”.

By pulling.

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 pull apart by force, or lure someone away.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• torn ×4
• broken ×3
• I will tear apart ×2
• he snapped ×2
• were drawn away ×2
• Drag them off ×1
• I would tear you off ×1
• Let us tear apart ×1
• are snapped ×1
• draw them away ×1
• others ×9

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Joshua×3
• Judges×5
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×7
• Ezekiel×2
• Nahum×1

• Leviticus 22:24

  And an animal with testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you shall not present to YHWH; in your land you shall not do this.

• Joshua 4:18

  And it came about, when the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of YHWH came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the feet of the priests were pulled up onto the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went as before over all its banks.

• Joshua 8:6

  They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ So we will flee before them.

• Joshua 8:16

  All the people who were in Ai were called out to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

• Judges 16:9

  Now the ambush was waiting for her in the room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings as a strand of tow snaps when it smells fire. So his strength was not known.

• Judges 16:12

  So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the ambush was waiting in the room. But he snapped them from off his arms like a thread.

• Judges 20:31

  And the sons of Benjamin went out to meet the people; they were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike some of the people, leaving them dead, as at other times, on the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and one to Gibeah in the field: about thirty men of Israel.

• Judges 20:32

  And the sons of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us as at the first.” But the sons of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”

• Job 17:11

  My days have passed; my plans are torn apart, the possessions of my heart.

• Job 18:14

  He is torn from his tent, his security, and they march him to the king of terrors.

• Psalms 2:3

  “Let us tear apart their bonds and cast away from us their ropes.”

• Psalms 107:14

  He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and their bonds he tore apart.

• Ecclesiastes 4:12

  And if one overpowers him, the two will stand against him; and the threefold cord is not quickly broken.

• Isaiah 5:27

  None is weary and none stumbles in it; none slumbers or sleeps; the belt of its hips is not loosened, nor is the strap of its sandals broken.

• Isaiah 33:20

  Gaze on Zion, the town of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, and none of its cords will be broken.

• Isaiah 58:6

  Is this not the fast that I choose: to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, and to set free the crushed, and that you break every yoke?

• Jeremiah 2:20

  For long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds, and you said, ‘I will not serve!’ For on every high hill and under every leafy tree you lay down, a prostitute.

• Jeremiah 5:5

  I will go to the great and speak with them, for they know the way of YHWH, the justice of their Elohim.” But they all alike had broken the yoke, had torn off the bonds.

• Jeremiah 6:29

  The bellows blow fiercely; by the fire the lead is consumed; in vain the refining goes on and on, and the evil are not drawn off.

• Jeremiah 10:20

  My tent is devastated, and all my cords are snapped; my children have gone out from me, and they are not; there is no one stretching out my tent anymore, or setting up my curtains.

• Jeremiah 12:3

  But you, YHWH, know me; you see me, and you have tested my heart with you. Drag them off like sheep to the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of killing.

• Jeremiah 22:24

  “As I live, declares YHWH, even if Coniah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the seal on my right hand, yet from there I would tear you off.

• Jeremiah 30:8

  And it will happen in that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and your bonds I will tear apart; and strangers will no longer make him serve them,

• Ezekiel 17:9

  Say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Will it prosper? Will he not tear out its roots and strip off its fruit, so that it withers? All the leaves of its sprouting will wither; and not with a great arm nor with many people will it take to pull it up from its roots.

• Ezekiel 23:34

  And you will drink it and drain it, and its shards you will gnaw, and your breasts you will tear, for I have spoken, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Nahum 1:13

  And now I will break his yoke bar from off you, and your bonds I will tear apart.”

And 1 more times.