nata · plant

What it means

nata (נָטַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plant”.

Set firmly.

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 set a plant in the ground to take root; so God establishes his people in a place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To plant: to put trees, vines or a garden into the ground; and, as an image, to establish a people in its land, or to pitch a tent. From the same root is נֶטַע (‘plant’).

• YHWH Elohim planted a garden Genesis 2:8Psalms 104:16
• Planting trees and vineyards Genesis 21:33Leviticus 19:23Proverbs 31:16
• Planting without enjoying the fruit: the curse Deuteronomy 28:30Zephaniah 1:13
• YHWH plants his people 2 Samuel 7:10Jeremiah 24:6Amos 9:15
• The vine brought out of Egypt Psalms 80:8Psalms 80:15

Historical and cultural background

The law commanded that, on planting a fruit tree in the land, its fruit be regarded “as uncircumcised” for three years (Leviticus 19:23). Jeremiah told the exiles to plant gardens in Babylon (Jeremiah 29:5).

How we translate it

Always “plant” in its forms (“plant” 33 times, “planted” 21); in Daniel 11:45 the image of setting firmly is rendered “he will pitch the tents of his palace”.

How it is translated

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

• plant ×33
• planted ×21
• he plants ×1
• he will pitch ×1
• planters ×1
• she plants ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×5
• Joshua×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×5
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×16
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×1
• Amos×3
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 2:8

  And YHWH Elohim planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

• Genesis 9:20

  And Noah, a man of the ground, was the first to plant a vineyard.

• Genesis 21:33

  He planted a tamarisk in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of YHWH, El Olam.

• Exodus 15:17

  You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, the place for you to dwell in that you have made, YHWH, the sanctuary, Adonai, that your hands have established.

• Leviticus 19:23

  And when you come into the land and plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as uncircumcised; three years it shall be uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten.

• Numbers 24:6

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

• Deuteronomy 6:11

  houses full of all good things that you did not fill, cisterns dug that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant— and you eat and are satisfied,

• Deuteronomy 16:21

  You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah, any tree, beside the altar of YHWH your Elohim that you make for yourself.

• Deuteronomy 20:6

  And who is the man who has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the war and another man begin to use it.

• Deuteronomy 28:30

  You will become engaged to a woman, and another man will lie with her; you will build a house, and you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, and you will not begin to use it.

• Deuteronomy 28:39

  You will plant vineyards and work them, but wine you will not drink nor gather, for the worm will eat them.

• Joshua 24:13

  And I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities that you had not built, and you live in them; of vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant you are eating.’

• 2 Samuel 7:10

  And I will appoint a place for my people, for Israel, and I will plant them, and they will dwell in their own place and will tremble no more; and unjust men will not again afflict them as at the beginning,

• 2 Kings 19:29

  And this shall be for you the sign: this year you will eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

• 1 Chronicles 17:9

  And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they will dwell in their own place and will tremble no more; and unjust men will not again consume them as at the beginning,

• Psalms 44:2

  You, with your hand, dispossessed nations, and planted them; you mistreated peoples, and spread them out.

• Psalms 80:8

  A vine out of Egypt you pulled up; you drove out nations and planted it.

• Psalms 80:15

  and the stock that your right hand planted, and the son whom you made strong for yourself.

• Psalms 94:9

  He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not look?

• Psalms 104:16

  The trees of YHWH are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted,

• Psalms 107:37

  And they sow fields and plant vineyards, and they yield fruit of harvest.

• Proverbs 31:16

  She considers a field and takes it; from the fruit of her palms she plants a vineyard.

• Ecclesiastes 2:4

  I made great my works: I built for myself houses; I planted for myself vineyards;

• Ecclesiastes 2:5

  I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted in them every kind of fruit tree;

• Ecclesiastes 3:2

  a time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted;

• Ecclesiastes 12:11

  The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails planted are the owners of the collections; they are given by a single shepherd.

• Isaiah 5:2

  He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a tower in its midst and also hewed out a winepress in it; and he waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced sour grapes.

• Isaiah 17:10

  For you have forgotten the Elohim of your salvation, and the Rock of your stronghold you have not remembered; therefore you plant pleasant plantings and with a cutting of a stranger you sow it;

• Isaiah 37:30

  And this shall be for you the sign: this year you will eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

• Isaiah 40:24

  Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely has their trunk taken root in the earth, when he also blows on them, and they wither, and the storm like stubble carries them off.

• Isaiah 44:14

  To cut down cedars for himself, he takes a holm oak and an oak, and makes it strong for himself among the trees of the forest; he plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow.

• Isaiah 51:16

  And I have put my words in your mouth, and in the shadow of my hand I have covered you, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

• Isaiah 65:21

  And they will build houses and live in them; and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

• Isaiah 65:22

  They will not build and another live there; they will not plant and another eat; for like the days of the tree will be the days of my people, and the work of their hands my chosen ones will enjoy to the full.

• Jeremiah 1:10

  See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.”

• Jeremiah 2:21

  And I planted you a choice vine, all of it true seed; and how have you turned for me into degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

• Jeremiah 11:17

  And YHWH Tsevaot, who planted you, has spoken evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done for themselves to provoke me by burning incense to Baal.”

• Jeremiah 12:2

  You planted them; they have even taken root; they grow, they even produce fruit; near are you in their mouth, but far from their kidneys.

• Jeremiah 18:9

  And at another moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant;

• Jeremiah 24:6

  And I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; and I will build them and not tear them down; and I will plant them and not uproot them.

And 18 more times.