natash · leave; permit

What it means

natash (נָטַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “leave; permit”.

Leave, let go, permit. Elsewhere, abandon; also spread out.

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 turn away from someone or something and leave it behind.
2. To give way to something without preventing it.
3. For an army to spread out over a place, occupying it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• abandon ×6
• spread out ×6
• left ×5
• forsaken ×3
• I will leave you ×2
• leave it ×2
• I have abandoned ×1
• I will forsake ×1
• drawn ×1
• even let me ×1
• others ×12

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×7
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 31:28

  You did not even let me kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have acted foolishly.

• Exodus 23:11

  but the seventh year you shall let it rest and leave it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the animals of the field may eat. So you shall do with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

• Numbers 11:31

  And a wind set out from YHWH and brought across quails from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on that side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.

• Deuteronomy 32:15

  And Jeshurun grew fat and kicked —you grew fat, you grew thick, you were covered with fat— and he forsook Eloah who made him and dishonored the Rock of his salvation.

• Judges 6:13

  Gideon said to him, “Pardon, my lord, if YHWH is with us, why has all this found us? And where are all his wonders that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not YHWH bring us up from Egypt?’ But now YHWH has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

• Judges 15:9

  Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and spread out in Lehi.

• 1 Samuel 4:2

  And the Philistines drew up their lines to meet Israel, and the war spread out, and Israel was struck down before the Philistines, who struck in the battle line in the field about four thousand men.

• 1 Samuel 10:2

  When you go from me today, you will find two men by the tomb of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin, at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to look for have been found, and look, your father has given up the matter of the donkeys and is worried about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

• 1 Samuel 12:22

  For YHWH will not abandon his people for the sake of his great name, for YHWH has been pleased to make you a people for himself.

• 1 Samuel 17:20

  David rose early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment as the army that was going out to the battle line was shouting for war.

• 1 Samuel 17:22

  David left the baggage that was on him in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the battle line, and came and asked his brothers about their welfare.

• 1 Samuel 17:28

  Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men, and the anger of Eliab burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left that little flock in the wilderness? I know your arrogance and the evil of your heart: for in order to see the war you have come down.”

• 1 Samuel 30:16

  He brought him down, and look, they were spread out over the face of all the land, eating and drinking and celebrating because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

• 2 Samuel 5:18

  Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

• 2 Samuel 5:22

  The Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

• 1 Kings 8:57

  May YHWH our Elohim be with us as he was with our fathers; may he not abandon us nor forsake us,

• 2 Kings 21:14

  I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

• Nehemiah 10:31

  and as for the peoples of the land who bring the merchandise and any grain on the day of the Sabbath to sell, we will not take anything from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day; and we will leave the seventh year and the loan of every hand.

• Psalms 27:9

  Do not hide your face from me; do not turn away your servant in anger; my help you have been; do not leave me nor abandon me, Elohim of my salvation.

• Psalms 78:60

  And he abandoned the dwelling of Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among human beings.

• Psalms 94:14

  For YHWH will not abandon his people, and his inheritance he will not forsake.

• Proverbs 1:8

  Hear, my son, the correction of your father, and do not abandon the instruction of your mother;

• Proverbs 6:20

  Keep, my son, the commandment of your father, and do not abandon the instruction of your mother.

• Proverbs 17:14

  Like releasing water is the beginning of strife; so before the dispute breaks out, leave it.

• Isaiah 2:6

  For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full from the east, and have soothsayers like the Philistines, and with the children of foreigners they clasp hands.

• Isaiah 16:8

  For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its choice branches; as far as Jazer they reached, they wandered into the wilderness; its shoots spread out, they crossed over the sea.

• Isaiah 21:15

  For from before swords they have fled, from before the drawn sword, and from before the bent bow, and from before the weight of battle.

• Isaiah 32:14

  For the palace is forsaken, the tumult of the city deserted; the Ophel and the watchtower have become caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

• Isaiah 33:23

  Your ropes hang loose; they cannot hold firm the base of their mast, they cannot spread out the sail. Then prey, abundant spoil, will be divided; the lame will plunder the plunder.

• Jeremiah 7:29

  Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise on the bare heights a lament, for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

• Jeremiah 12:7

  I have left my house; I have abandoned my inheritance; I have given the beloved of my soul into the palm of her enemies.

• Jeremiah 15:6

  You have abandoned me, declares YHWH; backward you go; so I stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you; I am weary of relenting.

• Jeremiah 23:33

  And when this people asks you, or the prophet or a priest, saying, ‘What is the burden of YHWH?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What burden? I will abandon you, declares YHWH.’

• Jeremiah 23:39

  therefore, look, I will utterly forget you, and I will abandon you, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, casting you out of my presence.

• Ezekiel 29:5

  And I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your channels; on the face of the field you will fall; you will not be gathered nor be collected; to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I have given you as food.

• Ezekiel 31:12

  And strangers cut it down, the fearsome ones of the nations, and left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell, and its foliage was broken in all the watercourses of the earth; and all the peoples of the earth came down from its shade and left it.

• Ezekiel 32:4

  And I will leave you on the land, on the face of the field I will hurl you, and I will make all the birds of the heavens settle on you, and I will satisfy with you the animals of all the earth.

• Hosea 12:14

  Ephraim has provoked him to anger bitterly; and his blood he will leave on him, and his reproach his Lord will pay back to him.

• Amos 5:2

  “She has fallen, she will not rise again, the virgin of Israel; she lies abandoned on her ground, there is no one to raise her up.”

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